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Scanning probe screen rotation - minor issue
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Kern Hotha
#1 - 2011-10-25 01:16:43 UTC
When probes are set to low ranges (e.g. 1 or less) and the camera is zoomed in to see the details, rotating the screen down to make sure that the probes are aligned on the y axis, the camera is rotating far too much and sending the probe group off the screen. It's then necessary to scroll and locate the probes, rotate, scroll again, and rotate just to get them centered on the screen. It seems that the 'viewpoint' for the camera isn't getting smaller as the camera zooms in.

Solution: make the camera continue to be truly centered as the scan range is lowered so that we can easily rotate the camera around the probe group easily.

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mxzf
Shovel Bros
#2 - 2011-10-25 01:19:15 UTC
You're doing it wrong then. Make sure to shift the center of your view around to follow the probes cluster, that removes all issues.
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#3 - 2011-10-25 02:53:26 UTC
Click the name of the probe you want to be your axis, it will center on it.

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Kern Hotha
#4 - 2011-10-25 06:20:16 UTC
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
Click the name of the probe you want to be your axis, it will center on it.


I'm a moron who has been scanning for years and didn't know this. Thanks.

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Kaptain Kruncher
Gemini Technologies
#5 - 2011-10-25 06:28:01 UTC
Kern Hotha wrote:
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
Click the name of the probe you want to be your axis, it will center on it.


I'm a moron who has been scanning for years and didn't know this. Thanks.


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Soro Harbon
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2011-10-25 14:41:24 UTC
me too, good to know

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Ammzi
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#7 - 2011-10-25 15:12:37 UTC
I don't like to be anchored on something, my solution is to move the camera along the x and y axis.
So look at it from the side, "move to appropriate position", and then rotate to look at from top and move into position.
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#8 - 2011-10-25 20:45:48 UTC
Kern Hotha wrote:
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
Click the name of the probe you want to be your axis, it will center on it.


I'm a moron who has been scanning for years and didn't know this. Thanks.


I figured it out because my camera kept recentering while I was working my probes. I finally clicked around enough to realize what it was doing.

As for being "anchored" to something: you aren't. Clicking the probe name centers on that probe, but the camera doesn't follow it. I use it when I've just moved a group of probes far enough that my current camera position sucks...click on them, get a perfectly centered camera, then move the probes more if needed without the camera chasing them.

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