Lands Design walk mode - navigation improvement suggestions

[furtonb]

Hi,
I have a few remarks on to the walk/fly mode available in Lands Design:

1. It would be nice to have the possibility to remap movement from the arrow keys. I am really used to WASD movement (no, not only gaming habits, but Archicad and Blender allows movement with them). Currently I see no option to change this and the default mode feels awkward as my right hand is on the mouse most of the time and the left hand needs to move away quite a distance.

2. Controlling height: according to the documentation, walk mode allows to control height with ± keys - this option does nothing for flying. It would be much convenient to use Q and E (or shift and C) to change height during fly mode too. This ties back to 1), as custom key mapping would be the best, but fly mode does not allow to modify the movement vector’s origin vertically with keys (sideways the left/right arrows work).

3. Toggling into fly mode directly: I need to switch to fly mode by pressing space, which is annoying as my camera drops instantly after entering walk mode.

Maybe I am not seeing an option and these are possible - in that case I would appreciate the help on how to achieve them.

If not, would these be hard to implement? I am really used to this kind of navigation in Archicad (especially for long modelling sessions, it is extremely immersive), and I would like to replicate it.

Parallel with these questions/notes, if anyone has good experience with a well-working WASD-style navigation plugin, I’m all ears.

There are examples for both plugins and wishes.

…I think the native navigation and WalkAbout should behave this way, but that’s another story.

Thanks!

[furtonb]

I did some more research, the Walkie plugin does what I have described above, available on Food4Rhino and the Package Manager. It is Windows-only.

Walking in the scene just like a game with WASD

Hi, I would like to share this convenient plugin Walkie which lets you walk in the scene with WASD+QE keys just like a game. It also enables you to zoom into the mouth cursor position depth. Hopefully it will be very handy in architectural projects. It’s very lightweight and easy to install. To Install, just type PackageManager command in Rhino and search for Walkie. [Walkie - A plugin for Rhinoceros with game-like walk mode and aimpoint zoom depth]

Walkie - A plugin for Rhinoceros with game-like walk mode and aimpoint zoom depth

The default WalkAbout command could behave like this.

As the original notes were targeted at Lands Design’s walk mode, which includes features that Walkie does not, I still consider the topic valid (especially the arrow keys remap option to WASD).

[elham]

Hi,

Many thanks for exploring the tool and for your suggestions on potential improvements. We will forward them to our development team, and I hope we can incorporate them into the next version.

[fsalla (Francesc Salla)]

Hi @furtonb thanks for your suggestions and comments to improve the Walk/Fly mode in Lands Design. We need to study the time and effort it would take us to carry out these improvements. We’ll keep you posted.

We will fix also the ± keys to change the height in Fly mode.