Issues in blender 5

[denis-susan]

I've just installed this plugin on blender 5 and there are a couple of glaring issues:

1. Input modes seem to be broken (I have a asus zflow 13 with touchscreen & pen bought separately) but when I try any of the modes, including full which is supposed to allow me to draw with pen and control the camera with touch does not work, if i touch the object with the finger it will draw instead of pan (center circle zone)

2. zooming feels unnatural, why not zoom with gestures? also rotation could be done with gestures?

3. pressed the square button (quad mode i think) on the gizmo and everything disappeared (no gizmo at all) even after manually returning to perspective mode, other modes such as layout or model has the gizmo but in sculpt mode it's gone forever

4. This one is more of a suggestion but can we have the actions thing (like the actual action) editable on the right/double click buttons menu as an option?

[tmgast]

Thanks for reporting it. I've not had a change to look at Blender 5, but I'll take a look tonight or tomorrow and see if any compatibility changes are needed. If you're having issues after first installing, I'd recommend restarting Blender to see if they persist.

To address your questions/suggestions:

1: sounds like your device might not be reporting touch in an expected way. Blender reports touch and mouse input at either 0.0 pressure or 1.0 pressure (this depends on the device) which is how I filter inputs between pen or touch. Maybe a restart will fix it but I may need to add some logs and have you test so I can verify.

2: I get that, but Blender doesn't support multiple touch inputs (at least in the versions I've tested). Second and third touches just register as an other touch location for input 1. Until they actually upgrade that in the native code, I cannot do more with it.

3: there's likely something different in the screen api causing it to throw errors in that view, making the touch UI unregister from errors. I'll have to test it.

4: I'd have to think about how to support it, but I think it's a good suggestion. I'll do some research after we sort out these bugs.

[denis-susan]

@tmgast Some updates:

Reinstalled both blender and the plugin and now it seems to work somewhat ok:

1. touch finally reacts to only camera stuff and pen works as expected.
2. for zoom and gestures: blender supports touchpad gestures natively (pinch to zoom, 2 finger to rotate and shift+ 2 finger to pan -- this wont work on a touchpad but you can get 3 finger to pan I guess). I see no reason why this wouldn't work on a touchscreen as they should be more or less the same thing right? different input sure but same function should be called

[tmgast]

The touchpad is actually transmitting native gesture data rather than relaying touch points. They rely on different technologies. I've done a lot of testing around this in previous version and Blender simply doesn't relay more than 1 touch input location.