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How do I rotate the scene view around the Z-axis
My game is in 3D mode. It is a top-down game where the Z axis is the 'gravity' axis (not sure if that matters). The point being that I cannot for the life of me figure out how to keep the view looking downward while rotating (or orbit) the scene view around this axis. Hopefully the picture helps. 
I want to be able to keep a top-down view while looking at this ship from the left.
I don't believe you can. Why not make it actually top down, i.e. have the gravity on the Y axis and have the camera above?
SceneView still uses a camera, so you can make an editor script that alters the camera itself, and to access it you would simply need.
Camera camera;
camera = Camera.current;
// alternatively
camera = SceneView.currentDrawingSceneView.camera;
Then you can alter the cameras position, rotation, and LookDirection like you would any object with a Transform.
Thanks for the responses. It was as I feared -- I started out creating my top-down game using a tutorial (ironically put out by folks at Unity) which had me switch the Y & Z axes for the sake of simplicity when thinking in terms of moving your player along the X & Y planes. However this ended up causing more headaches down the road when I started dealing with the editor camera, gravity, scaling, etc.
RobAnthem's answer looked somewhat promising, but I didn't really want to continue down the road of fighting the way Unity's coordinate system works. In short, I went back and flipped my axes back to Unity's default. It was somewhat of a pain and took me a couple days, but it's working now and I feel better about the decision to bite the bullet and make the change.
Hi! Faced the same issue and finish with handful script wich does the job. Hope it'll help someone.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/change-scene-view-camera-rotation-axis-from-y-to-z.649624/ The general idea is to look at Unity's own SceneViewMotion.cs
I'm having this same exact problem. I'm fairly new to Unity and I was wondering if you could explain how I would actually go about implementing this? I can't find any script called SceneView$$anonymous$$otion.cs anywhere.
