Zoom in/out with right button of mouse

[Seresia]

Hi all,

I started in unity.

I am looking for a way to zoom in and zoom out with the mouse button.
The goal is to run a game without using the mouse scrollwheel.

I started with the following code but I’m stuck.

function LateUpdate () {
    if (target && Input.GetMouseButton(0))  {
        x += Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * xSpeed * 0.02;
        y -= Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * ySpeed * 0.02;

        y = ClampAngle(y, yMinLimit, yMaxLimit);

        var rotation = Quaternion.Euler(y, x, 0);
        var position = rotation * Vector3(0.0, 0.0, -distance) + target.position;

        transform.rotation = rotation;
        transform.position = position;
    }

//HERE//

      if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(1)) {           
           distance += Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * xSpeed * 0.001;                            
           transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * -zoomSpeed); 
    }
 
     if (Input.GetMouseButtonUp(1)) {     
               distance -= Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * ySpeed * 0.001;                             
               transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * zoomSpeed); 
}

[AlucardJay]

Here is an example script showing 2 ways to check for changes in the mouse while the RMB is pressed.

The first basically reads the Input Manager value for Input.GetAxis( “Mouse X” )

The second calculates the changes in mouse position by remembering where it was last frame, then subtracting that from the current position.

Create a new scene, and attach this script to an empty gameObject. Hit Play, hold the RMB and move the mouse, check the output in the console. This is showing Input.GetAxis( “Mouse X” ). Now while still playing, change the boolean to false. Hold RMB and move mouse, now the console is displaying the calculations for the delta method.

Input.mousePosition gives screen coordinates, I have no clue what GetAxis returns, but that explains the difference in the values for the same movement. EDIT : (with help from fafase) the Unity Scripting Reference states If the axis is setup to be delta mouse movement, the mouse delta is multiplied by the axis sensitivity and the range is not -1…1.

You can fix the values from Input.mousePosition to a normalized value (which I recommend) by dividing the delta x and y by Screen.width and height. I have included this i the function, that is why there are 2 debugs : before and after normalization, normalize usually means a value between 0 and 1 (0 nothing, 1 maximum possible).

SO first calculate a value based on changes in the mouse using one of the methods I have shown, then use that value in the modification of your camera position =]

#pragma strict

var quickMethod : boolean = true;

// ----

function Update() 
{
	if ( Input.GetMouseButton(1) )
	{
		if ( quickMethod )
		{
			GetMouseX(); // quick method
		}
		else
		{
			CalculateMouseDelta(); // longer method
		}
	}
}

// ----

var axisDelta : Vector3 = Vector3.zero;

function GetMouseX() 
{
	if ( Input.GetAxis( "Mouse X" ) )
	{
		Debug.Log( "Input.GetAxis( \"Mouse X\" ) = " + Input.GetAxis( "Mouse X" ) );
		
		axisDelta.x = Input.GetAxis( "Mouse X" );
	}
	
	if ( Input.GetAxis( "Mouse Y" ) )
	{
		Debug.Log( "Input.GetAxis( \"Mouse Y\" ) = " + Input.GetAxis( "Mouse Y" ) );
		
		axisDelta.y = Input.GetAxis( "Mouse Y" );
	}
}

// ----

var lastPos : Vector3 = Vector3.zero;
var mouseDelta : Vector3 = Vector3.zero;

function CalculateMouseDelta() 
{
	var currPos : Vector3 = Input.mousePosition;
	
	mouseDelta = currPos - lastPos;
	
	Debug.Log( "mouseDelta.x = " + mouseDelta.x + " : mouseDelta.y =  " + mouseDelta.y );
	
	lastPos = currPos;
	
	// - Normalize this input -
	
	mouseDelta.x = mouseDelta.x / Screen.width;
	mouseDelta.y = mouseDelta.y / Screen.height;
	
	Debug.Log( "NORMALIZED   mouseDelta.x = " + mouseDelta.x + " : mouseDelta.y =  " + mouseDelta.y );
}

// ----