Expose additional orbit controls

🌵 Needle Engine
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Like min/max PolarAngle and AzimuthAngle and limiting pan would also be nice. :slightly_smiling_face:

Original Post on Discord

by user 486138778348683274

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Hey, as an intermediate solution you could extend it yourself by writing a mini component and setting the values on the expose controls property (controls is the OrbitControls by three)

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It’s not perfect but here’s my example of a modified Orbit Controls, see the variables for min and max zoom, and it also has panning bounds + camera bounds to prevent panning/zooming or moving outside of a set region.
OrbitControlsEpm.ts

by user 103054507105067008

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Can also recommend this package: GitHub - yomotsu/camera-controls: A camera control for three.js, similar to THREE.OrbitControls yet supports smooth transitions and more features. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Anyone have further guidance on implementing the camera-controls GitHub - yomotsu/camera-controls: A camera control for three.js, similar to THREE.OrbitControls yet supports smooth transitions and more features., as a Needle Component in Blender? I’ve attempted to follow the scripting guidelines Needle Engine Scripting | Needle Engine Documentation, (not a developer) and not yet successful in getting the component to appear. I was able to use the MapControls example posted here, which provided Polar Angle. Discord). Ultimately, hoping to apply a panning ‘boundary’ in addition to polar angle or other controls, to keep users from panning ‘away’ from the intended scene. thanks for any input

by user 737185978183319583

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Hello, maybe this helps you in getting started. It’s a minimal sample of including this package.
Make sure to install the package first.

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@ROBYER1 by the way, you can share such snippets now for inclusion in our docs: needle-tools/needle-engine-support Share · Discussions · GitHub

Would love if you share some of the helpers and scripts you made!

They show up here:

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Will make sure to when I get some time to share!

by user 103054507105067008

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Thanks for that example, and I think I got it working, kind of. Was able to set a panning boundary with the camera-controls in Unity. A new question is how to disable camera-control orbit, when also using Drag Controls on other objects. Made a little scene: Unity_rw_terrain_realtime

by user 737185978183319583