Adobe Substance Painter Update unnecessarily complicated zooming

Hello @Kitty34699923a3h8,

Thanks for the reminder.

I've brought the complaint to the team, but to be clear, the shortcut for zooming has always been the mousewheel alone. I've tried with 7.4.3 as @danc99051508 suggested, and yes it works, but it's simply "allowed", not expected nor a functionality. There's probably a feature that has been added since preventing the zooming while holding ALT.

I understand that some people got used to, and muscle memory is hard to forget, but to be honest, this is not a current priority. We've discussions regarding shortcuts in general (IMO we have more problematic issues on this regard than this ALT behavior), and when we'll work on the topic, that will be the time to bring ALT + Zooming on the table once again.

In the meantime, if you need to hold ALT for zooming, you'll have to stick with ALT + RMB. You can edit the Zoom speed in Edit > Settings > General > Camera options > Zoom Speed

Regards,

Hi@Kitty34699923a3h8 

It seems that Adobe really doesn't care about this, it's just another product under their belt afterall, can guarantee if Algorithmic was still the owner of the software, this issue would have been rectified ages ago. I see this has been going on for so long that my streamable video has expired.

I would like to remind @Cyril Dellenbach that the functionality existed and was later removed, seemingly by Adobe employees who don't understand 3D and the processes involved. Reminds of of the Substance Designer "nod" video that was released, quality control from this company is horrendous.

it's almost been a year @Cyril Dellenbach

are there any updates on this?

Can't edit my last response, however, I've had a look at past versions and holding alt and using the scroll wheel was enabled in version 7.4.3, unfortunately I can't use that version as it doesn't have a lot of the new features like UI scaling that was later added etc. It was disabled in update 8.1.0

@Cyril Dellenbach Was there an update on this? even if it wasn't by default and could be enabled by a check box would be very grateful to have this functionality back. It's very jarring to control everything else relating to the camera by holding alt then releasing it just to zoom then re-pressing to continue moving the camera around the object.

Hi @Cyril Dellenbach,

Substance Painter 2018.3.3 had the functionality to zoom while holding ALT (and the other 2 main camera movements, orbit and pan). I've taken this video that shows it working perfectly. https://streamable.com/c4nggf

I've been using 2018 since I bought it and never really needed to update, I recently got onboarded with a studio that's using 2023 and this missing functionality is killing my productivity.

Thanks for the reply @Cyril Dellenbach!

Yeah, a couple of versions ago you were able to keep ALT pressed and still zoom using MMB, which was useful since pressing ALT is important for panning and rotating, so you could just leave your finger on the key when zooming instead of having to let go like you do now
While I did get used to this eventually, I'd still like to have the option to be able to keep alt pressed, especially since that combination doesn't seem to be assigned to any other action 🙂

Another unneseccary change by Adobe that's caused hours of frustration. Holding ALT is the standard, removing the ability to zoom while holding ALT shows a disgustingly poor understanding of the requirements of Artists using this software. How can I fix this? It is productivity breaking, no other application requires me to let go of ALT and some require me to. Why is Adobe "trying to be different"?

Yep, it's breaking my brain too. Here's to hoping they revert in the next update.