Latest Blender 2.8:
- go into iorthographic mode, switch to orthographic view (front / top / etc.)
- click middle mouse button to rotate view
BUG: you are now in perspective view.
Please, fix it, it’s a showstopper.
Go to Edit>User Preferences>Interface tab
Disable Auto Perspective.
Wow, thanks! sorry for spamming then. (although I think that this mode should be disabled by default).
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Disabling Auto Perspective fixes the problem, but behavior is still different from previous Blender versions.
In 2.79 pressing numpad 1, 3 or 7 changes the view to orthographic projection. Moving the view afterwards with middle mouse button doesn’t change projection back to perspective.
In 2.80 pressing numpad 1, 3 or 7 changes the view to orthographic projection, but moving it afterwards makes it go back to perspective projection.
Disabling Auto Perspective in 2.80 makes it so when you press numpad 1, 3 or 7 the projection doesn’t change to orthographic in the first place. If the user was using perspective projection it’ll be kept that way.
Is this by design?
I tested here, and in 2.79 (auto perspective OFF) If I’m on perspective mode and press 1,3 or 7 it remains in perspective mode, requiring pressing 5 to go to ortographic.
It only goes automatically from ortographic to perspective after pressing 1,3 or 7, when I have auto perspective ON.
Which is a questionable behavior regardless of apparently not having changed from 2.79 to 2.8.
I +1 to this being default.
So anoying for 2.7x users. It should be like before. If I am modeling and I want the viewport to be in orthographic mode I do not want it to change to perspective automatically, that is logical I think. Well now I know I can change it on 2.80 after having wasted a lot of time and frustration with this. On the final release of 2.80 it has been moved to Preferences/Navigation
Cheers!