Editing In THe SpacePlane Hanger - ... Is With The Camera

[NeoMorph]

So I am trying to put together a VTOL and the darn camera keeps hitting invisible walls. I try to look around my craft and cannot move very far so I have to move the whole lot up... THEN THE CAMERA ZOOMS OFF and I can't get my ship back in place.

Seriously, the VAB is WAY easier to use. What is with the silly invisible walls that make plane building a chore instead of fun. If you are putting together big planes it gets to be a right pain in the bum.

PLEASE tell me there is a mod that lets you expand the Spaceplane hanger. I tried searching here but they still haven't fixed the search engine. Worse. Search. Engine. EVER!

Seriously peeved atm because the I just want to put together my VTOL and every time I try I come across weird stuff that I never see in the VAB. The camera control is really bad. What I don't get is why does it happen in the SPH and not the VAB. At one point I was zooming round the hanger and I wasn't even touching the controls. Was like a poltergeist was messing around with me.

Edited October 20, 2015 by NeoMorph

[Gaarst]

Here.

[Alshain]

The camera controls in the SPH and VAB are identical. It's just your perception. Those 'invisible walls' exist in the VAB too you just don't typically try to get the camera to that angle in the VAB.

[klesh]

The camera controls in the SPH and VAB are identical. It's just your perception. Those 'invisible walls' exist in the VAB too you just don't typically try to get the camera to that angle in the VAB.

I can't get the camera in the VAB to slide side to side like it will in the SPH. It always seems centered on the middle of the room whether my rocket is at the center or not. Am I missing some controls?

[Red Iron Crown]

I can't get the camera in the VAB to slide side to side like it will in the SPH. It always seems centered on the middle of the room whether my rocket is at the center or not. Am I missing some controls?

It doesn't. The VAB gets mousewheel vertical scrolling instead.

[Alshain]

I can't get the camera in the VAB to slide side to side like it will in the SPH. It always seems centered on the middle of the room whether my rocket is at the center or not. Am I missing some controls?

Oh, your right, I guess there is one difference. Shift Right click doesn't pan in the VAB while SPH doesn't scroll vertically.

[klesh]

It doesn't. The VAB gets mousewheel vertical scrolling instead.

Oh, your right, I guess there is one difference. Shift Right click doesn't pan in the VAB while SPH doesn't scroll vertically.

That's what I thought fellas. I was all giddy for a sec that I might be missing some funky Alt+J command that would make that kind of VAB camera movement a reality.

Hopes dashed!

[xtoro]

The camera can move up and down by holding either shift or alt while scrolling, I forget which one. And you can move the camera point of view around by holding the middle mouse button and moving the mouse. Personally I wish the vab worked like the sph does.

[NeoMorph]

Oh god... I'm going senile. I TOTALLY forgot about holding the middle mouse button to shift the view. I was trying all sorts of key combos but nothing would happen.

I think my main problem was that I spend most of my time in the VAB and all I do is scroll up and down while in the SPH I need to move more out of the centre of the room and trying to do it where the camera controls are flipped is freakin annoying... I go to move up and down and instead I move away from the vehicle. They should use the same control scheme in both imho.

Oh and thanks for the link Gaarst. I so wish the darn search functioned intuitively on this site.