Wanted: Ability to Rotate Objects in the Skin Viewer

[Vraciu]

The current skin viewer only allows us to rotate light around the object.   The old viewer allowed us to pivot and twirl the object.   In the case of the P-38, for example, this allowed us to look at the engine intakes with direct light.  The current viewer doesn't.

I would like to be able to twirl the object around so that I can make it face directly into and away from the light source.   

[hitech]

a d s w q z and right mouse drag.

HiTech

[Vraciu]

a d s w q z and right mouse drag.

HiTech

I'll give that a shot.   Thanks.   

[Vraciu]

a d s w q z and right mouse drag.

HiTech

I'm right clicking with the mouse to drag the object and using the keys to move it.   That still doesn't change its orientation to the sun.   The sun rotates around the object laterally but there is no way to make it go "over the top" of the object.

So if you take the P-38 I am working on, when I am looking down the intake the only way I can move the sun is around it as if it were doing an aileron roll.   There is no way to move the sun around the object as if it were doing a loop while still being able to look right down the intake.

Unless I'm not using the control correctly.    The old viewer allowed you to pivot the object in place with the mouse, thus you could have the sun hit any object from any angle.    Here if I want to look down the intake I have to go fly it offline and do a loop into the sun.   

[Vraciu]

Can someone please explain to me how I can shine light directly head-on in the viewer?  Use my above example.

The only way I can move light is AROUND the object like a roll, not over it like a loop. 

I can't see the leading edges and intakes in direct sunlight in order to check blending of panel lines and joint seams.


Maybe I need to post a picture to explain what I mean.

[Ciaphas]

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