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A desperately needed feature

37.2k V  3.0 years ago

So I've been working on something that requires extremely precise movement in fine tuner, and after a few minutes of fat fingering the camera around the designer, I concluded that this might be a problem that I am not alone in experiencing. on mobile, we need a way to precisely move the camera around in various small increments, as building a cockpit in on mobile is very difficult and frustrating when your thumbs can only move the camera in large movements. it can just be a set of buttons with an input fields for positions and nudge increments, as zooming in close on something is REALLY tedious, and the ability to click buttons to nudge the camera around will be a lifesaver. Phone is about to die so I'll lay out this idea in more detail once I charge it.

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    4,287 Formula350

    Well most devices support 10-Point Touch, as of probably the last 5 years or more. So there's no reason they couldn't add a whole bunch of other features like that for mobile.
    ie Assign it to 4-touch, where you could use the Thumb of your off-hand as Input#1, then a 3-finger touch on the primary hand to do the rest.
    Although, since I suspect you would need to do all of that within a very quick span of time for it to register as 4-fingers... maybe just a simple button in the corner on mobile, that when it's held-down it toggles "Alt" functions for 1, 2, 3 finger touching. Akin to what Shift and Ctrl do on PC.


    @CC1010 If you ever feel like making something, and uploading it as an Unlisted "rough draft" that is in need of tedious fine-tuning of part locations... Feel free to ping me. I'd actually considered making a post to offer that, as I for some reason enjoy that sort of thing. (I often end up doing it on builds I've downloaded anyhow, but don't feel right uploading them often times...)

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    37.2k V

    @117Destroyerz three fingers opens the dev console

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    @V seems like kind of an oversight, maybe they could bind it to using three fingers instead of two

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    I don't have this such problems but, something that's quite frustrating is when your building something big in mobile is that when you type something and when your finish typing it starts to freeze for a few seconds (I don't think it's the update it also happens in 1.10 )

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    3,656 Dathcha

    This is one of the main reasons i dont build anything. making something precise on mobile is just so frustrating.

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    That would be pretty useful ngl

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    37.2k V

    @117Destroyerz nothing like that on mobile, I'm stuck with my two fingers. While I can connect a keyboard and mouse, mouse controls do not work on mobile

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    on pc they recently added holding shift down to slow your camera down to 10% for zooming and panning idk if there's anything like that on mobile

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