Can't move scene view with WASD or arrows anymore

Question

Hello,

Today I started using Unity and after adding a terrain in my scene, I couldn’t move with wasd or my arrows in the scene view in FPS mode (holding right click button). I’m in perspective mode, I tried reinstalling unity, restarting unity, create a new scene, all my keys are set to default, but that still doesn’t work.

Any suggestion that could help me solving my issue ?

Thanks !

Floatation

Are you in game mode? Can you drag using the middle mouse button or rotate with the right mouse button?

– Salim

Having the same problem right now. Didn't find the answer yet. :(

– Rosiarosicrucian

Answer 1

So I spend an hour trying to “fix” this before I realized that my camera actually is moving, just INCREDIBLY slow. If I held down one of the arrow keys I’d eventually move the grid a single pixel after about 5 seconds. It turned out I was just zoomed really far out and the camera moves the same distance at any zoom so it’s really difficult to notice any movement while zoomed out.

Willetta

Yes, this happens when you have "framed" a large object such as a huge terrain object as the camera has to zoom out to get it in view. You basically have two options here: - You can hold SHIFT while moving around with WASD. It will speed up the movement by about 3-5 times - Select a smaller object in the scene and press again "F" to frame it. If there is no such object you can temporarily create a cube, select it, press "F" and delete it.

– Oubre

Answer 2

Seems the new behavior is that you have to hold right click and then use the arrow keys to move around.

Adenoid

Answer 3

Just in case someone else comes across this post and has the same problem in the editor, try unlocking the rotation in the current direction. It’s the tiny little padlock in the editor view window (#scene). That will allow you to use wasd and the mouse right click. If the padlock is locked then you will only be able to pan around the editor window using the arrow keys and zoom in using the mouse scroll button.

Surrey

Thank you! Don't know how I managed to LOCK that tiny little bugger, but unlocking it stopped my madness.

– Conradconrade

Thanks! Re-adding #scene helped: Window>General>Scene

– Granuloma

Thank you for this. A and D worked for me but W and S was impossible to get moving at a reasonable rate (looked like it wasn't moving at all.). Locking and unlocking the rotation fixed this completely.

– Surfacetosurface

Answer 4

Old thread but I bumped into it… I was working with Oculuos rift and had it plugged in yet not their controller in the scene however it still took over any camera and prevented movement.

I unplugged it and turned off oculuos and whammo it all worked again.

Hope it helps anyone else like me who bumped into this old thread. Even though it was not terrain for me.
Have a great day!

Valeriavalerian

Answer 5

In the scene view, under the arrows which shows X, Y, Z axis, there is a little text ISO, click on it and change to Persp. This solve the issue.

Went

Answer 6

The solution to this problem is : You have to find a dropdown arrow on the top right of your monitor(“Layout”).Click on it and select “Default” after that your unity will refresh and your problem is solved.(It worked for me ).

Hardily

Thanks! This worked for me

– Wetterhorn

This worked for me! Thank you

– Wetterhorn

Answer 7

hold down right click and zoom out with scroll wheel, that should fix it

Handily

Thank you Brother

– Broom

Answer 8

At the top right of the scene view there is a tab for editing the scene view camera, in there you can adjust the speed of the camera regardless of what is selected.

Priming

Answer 9

In the scene view and on its top-right buttons bar you have camera icon, click on it and then UNSELECT “Camera Acceleration”

Cytolysin

You could, but that means it will never be culled even if it's completely outside the camera frustum, making it use up pointless rendering cycles.

– Barbicel

Answer 10

I had the same issue and i found a solution for this:
I accidently held Right Mouseclick and used my MouseWheel and this changed my Acceleration to very slow, so use this again and up it to make it fast again

Fillander

Answer 11

Hi, bro!

Krch, if you hold down the right mouse button on the stage and start turning the wheel, then you will change the speed at which your camera moves with WASD. You most likely unscrewed 0.001x, at this value, you will not have a camera flying with WASD.

Perhaps they have already given such an answer before, if not, then I hope that it helped)

Apologist

Answer 12

So all I did was read the console error, it showed me the location of the error during my problem with the not being able to move but can scroll and everything else works this refers to mostly not being able to use WASD or move by grabbing the screen even trying to move using shift did not move me, I was litterally frozen, error said ambiguous some thing something, there was a folder in my assests called IgniteCoders that was connected to it, I didn’t know what it was so of course I deleted it, and bam I could move again as if nothing happened, no idea how it got there to begin with probably a package or something I installed. But boy was that frustrating I hope I helped.

Terrapin

Thanks !! You saved me I also had this IgniteCoders folder, it was a simple-water-shader from Github or the assets store, and deleting the editor script that read the readme.md solved the issue

– Louiselouisette