So ... I'm not 100% sure if this is new to VW2023, but I do feel it's worse, at least compared to 2021.
I am forever trying to get hold of some object, by one of its snap points, in order to move it. But what happens is that I end up grabbing something behind it, and moving it instead. Often, this is a floor or wall object and sometimes I don't even realise I've accidentally moved it until I find it in the wrong place at some later time.
The video below shows what happens. I want to select & move the front cube, not the back one. I make three attempts to select the front cube. The first and third attempts fail, the second one succeeds. Here is what I do to pick up the front cube:
- I hover the cursor near the corner of the front cube.
- The cursor changes to a cross icon (and the little red square appears on the snap point). To my mind, this confirms that VW understands this is the snap point I'm after.
- I know the red square is technically to let me then move the cursor to some perpendicular point or whatever. But once it appears, I don't then move the cursor to follow one of these snap lines. Again, the appearance of this plus the cursor changing, to me intuitively suggests that I've found the snap point.
- Then I press and hold the left mouse button
- What I want/expect to happen is that I will now have selected the front cube (the one the snap point belongs to) and will be able to drag it to some other location. When I release the mouse button, that's where the cube's snap point, the one I am holding onto, will be placed.
- That's not what always happens though: often instead the rear cube becomes selected, and of course moves if I then try and drag.
- I can see that the behaviour is determined by exactly where the cursor is, when I press the mouse button. If it's close to the corner but over the front cube, that's what gets selected. If it's close top the corner but over the rear cube, that gets selected.
- The problem is that even if you are very close to the snap point, or even, as far as can be discerned, exactly over it, you're liable to pick up the object you don't want.
Surely there should be some bias built in so that if the cursor is actually over the rear cube, but pretty close to the front cube snap point (and the cursor indicates that VW has found it), then the behaviour should be that the front cube is selected?
Feels like something has been tweaked because I don't remember having this frustration as much in previous versions.
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So ... I'm not 100% sure if this is new to VW2023, but I do feel it's worse, at least compared to 2021.
I am forever trying to get hold of some object, by one of its snap points, in order to move it. But what happens is that I end up grabbing something behind it, and moving it instead. Often, this is a floor or wall object and sometimes I don't even realise I've accidentally moved it until I find it in the wrong place at some later time.
The video below shows what happens. I want to select & move the front cube, not the back one. I make three attempts to select the front cube. The first and third attempts fail, the second one succeeds. Here is what I do to pick up the front cube:
- I hover the cursor near the corner of the front cube.
- The cursor changes to a cross icon (and the little red square appears on the snap point). To my mind, this confirms that VW understands this is the snap point I'm after.
- I know the red square is technically to let me then move the cursor to some perpendicular point or whatever. But once it appears, I don't then move the cursor to follow one of these snap lines. Again, the appearance of this plus the cursor changing, to me intuitively suggests that I've found the snap point.
- Then I press and hold the left mouse button
- What I want/expect to happen is that I will now have selected the front cube (the one the snap point belongs to) and will be able to drag it to some other location. When I release the mouse button, that's where the cube's snap point, the one I am holding onto, will be placed.
- That's not what always happens though: often instead the rear cube becomes selected, and of course moves if I then try and drag.
- I can see that the behaviour is determined by exactly where the cursor is, when I press the mouse button. If it's close to the corner but over the front cube, that's what gets selected. If it's close top the corner but over the rear cube, that gets selected.
- The problem is that even if you are very close to the snap point, or even, as far as can be discerned, exactly over it, you're liable to pick up the object you don't want.
Surely there should be some bias built in so that if the cursor is actually over the rear cube, but pretty close to the front cube snap point (and the cursor indicates that VW has found it), then the behaviour should be that the front cube is selected?
Feels like something has been tweaked because I don't remember having this frustration as much in previous versions.
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