Gray screen after trying to focus on an object

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Godot Version

Godot 4.3 mono

Question

Hi everyone !
I’m trying to make the transition from unity to godot, and I’m going nuts on stupid problems like the one here.

In unity, to focus the scene view on an object, I used to double click on it and that was it.

I understood that F had the same purpose in godot, so i clicked my object, pressed F with my mouse on the scene view, and this happened.

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Gray screen, no idea where the objects are relative to the camera, no idea how to come back to where I was.

I know the solution might be completely stupid but I’ve tried to google it and nothing came up, even restarting the editor does nothing.

Please help me :frowning:

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Try selecting the sprite PlanetDepart and then pressing F.
It looks to me like you are way off to the left and above your scene objects.

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Hey! Thanks for your answer, but it doesn’t work unfortunately. One thing I can tell you is if I try to drag a new object it doesn’t even appear on scren.

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Yeah, like I said you seem to be way off to the left and above.
Try using your scroll wheel and zooming way out (down to way under 100, 50, 25% etc).
You can also try dragging the scroll bars nearer to the middle.

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I’m on a Mac and focus works as expected, so not able to fully help.
Some things I thought of that might help:

Check the F hasn’t accidentally been bound to another shortcut causing this weird behaviour.
Menu > Godot > Editor Settings… > Shortcuts tab
For reference my shortcuts look like this:

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Also you can focus nodes by double clicking the nodes icon in the Scene tree. The icon is before the name of each node. It took me a while to realise this, as double clicking the name let’s you rename.

Maybe give that a try and see if you end up in the same weird state.

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I’m having the same issue, but I’ve been scratching my head for so long that I can’t actually remember how I produced the bug.
I think it had something to do with setting a UI node to full rect or zooming really far out, but I’m not 100% sure.

I can, however, confirm—after searching around for a bit—that deleting or renaming the .godot folder in the project files does temporarily solve the issue, at least until I try to recenter the view again.