topic Re: Invert Dolly/Zoom Tool in Maya Forum

Invert Dolly/Zoom Tool

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:11:01 GMT

Hi everyone,

I just started learning Maya and I'm running into a small issue. I went through the support and a few threads but couldn't find anything relevant, so my apologies if this is a duplicate post.

I was wondering if there was a way we could invert the dolly/zoom tool direction when using the Alt/Option + Push/Pull Mouse, so that pushing the mouse up would zoom in instead of zooming out?

I can't seem to find this option anywhere in the camera tools or in the preferences.

Thanks!

Re: Invert Dolly/Zoom Tool

trs_andre — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 01:35:05 GMT

From what I searched, it doesn't seem possible in Maya...

Only if you reverse the mouse wheel itself in your OS, I guess...

Re: Invert Dolly/Zoom Tool

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:24:12 GMT

Hi trs_andre,

Thanks for getting back to me. That's also what I ended up going with. I found a quick workaround while using the wheel but I'm not sure the whole Right click + Mouse Up/Down comes with an easy fix.

Thanks anyway!

Re: Invert Dolly/Zoom Tool

syracoj — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 20:38:57 GMT

In the VP Menu under View there is an entry called Camera Tools.

In there there is a dolly and zoom tool with option boxes.

open the script editor, turn on echo all commands and change the dolly tool option scale to 2

The script editor will return:

dollyCtx -e -scale 2 dollyContext;

This exposes the command that is called when invoking that tool

what you could do is change the scale value to -1 and store this as a custom shelf button.

Just keep track that you changed this.

dollyCtx -e -scale -1 dollyContext;

should give you what you want

same for

boxZoomCtx -e -zs -1 boxZoomContext;

Re: Invert Dolly/Zoom Tool

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 01:19:45 GMT

Woah. Thanks a million times syracoj, you rock! Never could have come up with that myself, that's like far beyond my paygrade 😀

Re: Invert Dolly/Zoom Tool

Ninurta — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 10:04:22 GMT

like what??
so the simplest thing should be solved again through a script??
autodesk what's the matter???
do you even have brains?
maya have one zoom.
but 3ds max another!
why??
so why can't you add the invert option so it's one????
why???
is it so hard for you?
it's elementary!
give users what they want!
add inverted zoom in 3ds max and maya!

Re: Invert Dolly/Zoom Tool

Richleemedia — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:26:49 GMT

You rock! Thanks