I'm new to blender and started learning the interface. I tried to rotate the camera around my object using the middle mouse button but it won't do it. Clicking on the symbol with the 3 dots and an arrow underneath hasn't done anything. I can't work out what I've pressed but it just will not rotate whatsoever. I'm wondering whether it's down to a bug as this version of blender is still in beta.

If it's not a bug then I hope someone knows how to fix this problem because I'm stumped.

Thanks a lot xx

are you using a mac mouse?

I'm using a trackpad on a macbook. Holding alt and pressing the button and moving along the trackpad with my otherfinger used to work fine, I don't know why it's suddenly stopped.

enable 'Emulate 3 button mouse' in user prefs. You can Ctrl U to save this a a default

If you've upgraded to a newer version of Blender you need to re-set our preferences.

I think you have to use a mouse because I've looked and that's the only thing that has worked for me

tcw, It works on my Macbook Pro, what version macbook are you using?

PowerBook G4

are we talking about 2.5 or 2.49?

Emulate 3 Button Mouse is a feature of both 2.49 & 2.5x and I remember it worked on my Powerbook G4
to access the User Prefs in 2.49 you need to drag down the top menu bar and select Edit Methods.

do you happen to know 2.5?

Blender 2.5
File -> User Preferences... choose Input, tick Emulate 3 Button Mouse. Close the User Preferences window and if you Ctrl U now you can save this as a default setting each time you open Blender. So it best do this with new scene.

psullie wrote:

Blender 2.5 File -> User Preferences... choose Input, tick Emulate 3 Button Mouse. Close the User Preferences window and if you Ctrl U now you can save this as a default setting each time you open Blender. So it best do this with new scene.

that help me but it zomed me out so far i cant see what im doing