Thanks Yuri! I can honestly say your system made developing this a rewarding experience. I’m an (old) engineer, not a developer, so some of the programming and html techniques are a bit foreign. I will definitely work on the compression and on-demand loading you suggest because some users have complained about load time. I assume I can put some sort of progress bar element to allow the user to know the component is loading if it causes a delay?
I have 3 quick questions:
1. I am creating a ‘share url’ with three parameters to basically pass enough information through the url to build the complete dock configuration. The URL can get a bit long and I notice on some phone messaging (iPhone), the url gets split into two messages, so the complete parameter is not passed. Is there some magic method you know of to ‘compress’ the url? Here’s an example url:
https://cdn.soft8soft.com/AROAJSY2GOEHMOFUVPIOE:ff74dcf89a/applications/ShoreStationDock/index.html?Accy=accy.DA0124,14.59,-5.46,0,-90~accy.DA0124,12.12,-5.46,0,90~accy.da0123,12.49,-2.93,0,180~accy.DA0095,14.57,5.48,0,0~accy.DA0094,12.13,5.48,0,0~accy.DA0094,9.7,5.48,0,0~accy.da0017,14.59,-3.03,0,-90~accy.ADAS-6,11.61,-1.12,0,-135~accy.da94-99,7.27,-0.62,0,180~&Depth=18~&Dock=60~..,4,1,6,8,360,Y,Y~0.1.6,4,2,2,8,270,Y,Y~0.1.3,4,1,2,8,90,Y,Y~2.1.2,4,1,3,8,270,Y,Y~
2. The AR mode is working pretty well, but the model does tend to ‘slide’ while the user walks down the dock. Perhaps it is just my environment and the size of the model, but I am curious if you have any methods to improve ‘tracking’.
3. Is there a way for me to create a ‘section plane’ that would cut the model at the water line when entering AR mode? I have found some techniques in Blender to do this, but nothing that can work ‘on the fly’. This would help give the dock the appearance of being in the water when in AR mode. I’ve tried turning on a plane to represent water. It works, but it takes away from the ‘real’ imagery.
Thanks again!
Jon
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