So with the advent of Unity 2019, there is a really annoying feature that was added that I’m not sure anyone actually wanted: Smooth camera movement in the scene view.
While I do appreciate the other scene camera options (especially being able to set clipping planes easily), The default smoothing at .4 seconds is a bit frustrating and causes me some grief when working on the same project on different workstations.
Thankfully, it is easy to change with either disabling the checkbox or setting the duration to a minimum value with the little foldout window in the scene view.
Unfortunately, it (and other scene camera settings) likes to reset back to defaults, and is reset to defaults in any newly opened scene views or when switching projects.
Fortunately, you can make a simple hack, like an editor window that while open forces the option off in the last active scene view, to prevent it from being a pain in the ass.
Unfortunately you still need to import it into every project, open it up, dock, and resize the window, and make sure your layout always has it present.
I think we shouldn’t have to use such a hack to configure such a feature.
Suggestion:
There should be a way to set defaults for camera settings across and within projects, maybe another page in Preferences to set default parameters, or perhaps maybe via the new Unity Hub launcher (so it could even be stored alongside the cloud account?)
Maybe even have an option to revert back to the old camera behaviors?
Or maybe, if I’m completely blind and dumb, and missed an option to set the defaults somewhere, could someone point me to it?