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  • CarstenSchonart

    Can the min/max - rotation values be changed in runtime by script?

    Imagine we orbit around the center of a house on a groundplane.

    In order to give the viewer the best experience, we want to prevent to go lower than the groundplane.

    The minimum angle will change according to the camera distance (zoom).

    (See my little example.)

    If this can´t be done, I wouldn´t call this a "Pro-Feature" .

     

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  • James

    Ah, interesting, so you want to be able to look up while inside the building, for example. It's a cool idea but not currently in the scope of camera limits. What does setting this up look like in your Unity player?

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  • CarstenSchonart

    The main idea is to districtly avoid to see the (architecture/landscape) model from below, because it is unnatural and therefore mostly a negative experience. A nice side effect of a realtime updated angle is indeed the effect that the closer you zoom in the more upwards the camera may look.

    The maths behind it is very simple:

    minAngle = asin (orbitcentreheight/zoomdistance)

    It is easy to implement and of almost no performance cost.

    Users will surely appreciate this little but handy feature, may be as an option to choose for the orbitcamera.

     

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  • aerialengineering

    Hi there, 

    Is it possible to allow annotations and the use of camera limits? 

    Seems odd that the 2 cannot be together. Apart of the reason i purchased this is i assumed i could limit the orbit and have annotations. 

    Cheers

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  • James

    Hello,

    At the moment, annotations are incompatible with camera limits. It's quite a complicated topic, both the behavior and the UI for the editor. E.G. does each annotation have it's own set of limits? or must all the annotation views be within the global limits? what happens when you move between them? etc.

    It's something we want to do in the future, but I don't have an ETA.

    For now, it would be possible to do it by setting camera limits in the model settings and then creating annotations programmatically using the Viewer API. This would only be possible in the context of an embed on your website though, not on the regular model page. Here's a simple example: https://jsfiddle.net/PadreZippo/u2yhtj1L/

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