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Navigation - Houdini Tutorial

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Navigation

- [Instructor] In this video we're going to take a look at the basics of navigating in the viewport in Houdini. We've got our scene loaded up, we haven't done anything at all, all we need to do is we're just going to move our mouse over the viewport here. I'm going to click the left mouse button down and you can see that allows me to tumble around and view my scene from different angles. Now if I click the middle mouse button, now that allows me to pan up and down without actually doing any rotation, just to pan around and reframe a shot. Now if I click the right mouse button this allows me to zoom in and zoom out by pulling left and right respectively, if we zoom out we can see our mountains in the background here, we zoom back in, we're back in our little training center room here. Now we've got a scroll wheel on our mouse that will also allow you to zoom, I'm going to scroll out, so we're zooming out and now I'm going to scroll in and I'm zooming in, so that's just the basics of mouse navigation in Houdini. One thing I'll point out here too is that if we click on the right mouse button, do one little click, we get a menu here which allows us to do different things, look through different viewports, some of your typical just different 3D scene view options. But if I hold that button down that allows to zoom. So if that pops up sometimes just know that that is sort of the one little click thing, and then if you actually hold it down you get your zoom. Alright, so I'm going to reframe this a little bit and I encourage you just to practice with a mouse just to get comfortable navigating around 3D applications. Now every application sometimes has its own mouse mappings and different modifier keys and as simple as this is it's just really important to be able to fluidly move around your scene with comfort in Houdini.

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