Does anyone have any tips or suggestions of how to configure UE so it can be used with one hand? I’ve found lots of articles on accessibility in games but nothing for development.
Last week I broke my right shoulder and it looks like I’ll be out of action for 2-3 months at least, possibly longer. I don’t want to ‘down tools’ completely if I can help it. I’m developing primarily for iOS and Android and work across both Mac and Windows. Navigating the 3d views is proving troublesome as it requires both hands. I’ve experimented with my Wacom tablet + pen and the touch/gesture features on my Mac’s Magic Mouse but not really found an easy-to-use solution yet.
If you have any tips to share on the UE editor accessibility settings/config, I’d be very grateful.
if you are dominantly right handed, then you are probably used to using right hand mouse.
at least the magic mouse is ambidextrous: you would either need to remember that middle finger is left click (unless you are a ring finger on the right click), pointer is right. there is a setting in both Mac and Windows to “reverse/swap mouse buttons” (this can get awkward either switching back later, or reading directions like "right click→__” meaning “Left-Click→__”
if you primarly work in blueprints then the Editor Keybinds are in “Edit→Editor Preferences→General→Keyboard shortcuts” you will need to play around with what works. for moving around the 3D scene with just the mouse (no WASD or arrows)
Hold right click rotates the camera freely
Scroll Up/down is “fly forward/back” (stepping might get frustrating flying past things and the like)
hold Left, Middle, or Right click and scroll up/down is camera speed so that might help with the “fly forward/back” stepping issues, but will mostly help with the other 3.
holding left click locks your Z height and allows for fine movement on the XY plane,
Holding Middle click (or Left-Click+Right-Click) Locks you X, and allows for free movement on the Z+RelativeY with fine movement
if you work in C++ as well, that is a whole different story, and keyboards kind of expect you to have 2 hands, and 2-3 months learning the 1-hand Dvorak variants, is not impossible just not going to be a great experience depending on how old you are, and how long you have been using either QWERTY or standard Dvorak.
for Mac specific things I really don’t know, I just know that the Magic Mouse was specifically Ambidextrous, and that they support swapping mouse buttons (they were actually quick to add that considering how long it took them to add “right click” as a thing), but Magic Mouse gestures, might be in the settings, but I just don’t know.