Make Box Selection Left click by default

InstaMAT Features Requests
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Making the option to select nodes with Left Click + Drag instead of using Shift + Left Click + Drag the default option.

Justification

Currently, Shift + Left Click + Drag is used for the selection box. This doesn’t make sense to me due to the default behavior Left Click and Middle Mouse click doing the same thing. They pan the view. So, I think most people are familiar with the middle mouse click for panning the viewport and would also be familiar if left click was used for box selection.

Implementation Details

Remove: Shift + Left Mouse + Drag = Box Selection

Add: Left Mouse + Drag = Box Selection
Add: Industry standard options for 3D View Port. (Alt + Left = Rotate, Alt + Middle = Pan, Alt + Right = Zoom.)

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Thanks for doing that @Pixby

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yes if we could please allow customising the navigation controls to whatever we like. its so frustrating switching from DCC to instamat and having foreign nav controls that can’t be customized. This would make the experience much nicer

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5

I wouldn’t want LMB = pan removed. When using InstaMat on laptop, I cannot press MMB and Alt + LMB (click, not simple double tap) is tiring.

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6

I created an account just to vote for this.

It’s challenging when the most common action in a program (in this case, click and drag to rect select) differs from the industry standard.

I agree with the others:

Left click and drag: rect select
Middle mouse: pan

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modified request

instead of adding and removing things i think it just help to have the possibility to customize them.
for ease of use it would be good to have the possibility to also chose a (controls and key map profile) just at the first startup, like it is in the blender splash screen when you open it first time.

In the InstaMat way of course

Reference

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these are the preferences menus just to understand a bit more of what i’m talking about:
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Regarding the 3D viewport, I would like control like in Substance Designer by pressing the mouse buttons without modifier keys (this is the most convenient control): LMB - Rotate, MMB - Pan, RMB - Zoom.