Rotate and Zoom buttons

well…. here is an option….

Basically a simple cube at position 0,0,0 and then I have created four buttons.
The left and right buttons rotate the cube on the z axis…you can change this or add other buttons or values to change the rotation axis. The top and bottom buttons move the camera in the x-axis. Your axis may vary depending on where you keep your camera. There is one problem with this approach…and thats if you allow the user to control the camera with a mouse then the zoom function in this example will not work well, but since you are trying to do this via buttons only…this will work.

I normally don’t group them the way I have shown….but the “When Clicked” puzzles are stackable…they have the little divit on the top of their puzzle.

In this particular example….I used a +/- 5 increment. This means that the rotation or position is changed from what is was by 5. You can decrease this value to an number you like…smaller numbers…smoother but requires much more input to move. Often a slider is a better choice but you are not going to have mouse control…so you are stuck with When clicked events.

What you may want to consider is that these buttons do not cause an increment but start and stop a rotation in that direction. This way when you click say the rotate left button..it just starts rotating at given speed of say 1 and then if you click it again .. it goes faster. Using the right button it may slow it down until it stops…and then once it passes the stop point it starts rotating the other way.

To do this you will need a different set of logic. Just curious …why do you believe the user would rather not navigate via the mouse or what the business requirements are that you have to create it this way.

Ok…so here is a new way.
It requires you create an rotation animation of your object in the z axis. Be sure its ease in and out is linear or it will look likes its pausing between rotations. If you make the animation start on frame 0 and end on frame 60 then you can use these puzzles.

The button on the right will cause the animation to play back at the set speed (in this case 2). Then each time the user press the right button it will increase the playback speed by +2. If the user press the left button it will subtract from the current speed -2. The plus and minus +/-2 are in the logic puzzles… you only see a 2 number but to the left of each of the 2 numbers is a math symbol of + and the other has a – symbol.

To implemented this disable your other When Clicked R_Right and When Clicked R_left puzzles. and add these.

I have some time now if you want to discuss you can reach me directly at xeons3dlab [at] gmail [dot] com. We can do a Teams, or Google chat