Drag mouse to rotate controls

Its exceedingly rare I would suggest rotating a scene vs rotating the camera. Its easier to implement and its much more efficient and user friendly.

The camera you want to use is an orbit camera which you are doing now.
You can set the speed at which it rotates in the your Camera Properties Verge3D settings..there will be a rotation speed control value you can set.

There are also vertical and horizontal rotation min and max limits you can set in the same panel.

The only thing that you will have to write some puzzles for is the return to home after the mouse is let up after drag is done….but you are not going to use the drag puzzle.

This can be done with a Tween camera from current position to your home position with the type set to spherical vs linear.

You will need to use a Camera Target and a Camera Start Location (usually empties) marking these locations and then just tween to them once the camera (stops moving).

What you can do is test the position of the camera using Get Object location (camera) and determine if its changed values in a given duration of X seconds. If the value hasn’t changed then you start the tween if it has then you don’t tween. Simple timer with an interval set to X. I would recommend killing the timer after you return back to the home position.

Other things to consider:
Your HDR image Neutral_Pop.hdr is 10,000 x 5000. This is excessively large and should be something much smaller.
You also have this problem with Foam color and wall tile normal…both of which are 4096×4096.

You are also using non Power of Two image sizes for decals etc. I would recommend putting all those textures into one POT image atlas.

Your poly count is high and you are using a light. So your poly count is higher than it needs to be sitting at 3,867,480. Since you have an HDR background you should be able to ditch the light and improve performance. If you want the light effects and shadows you would be better served baking those in the maps … for efficiency sake.

3D text – doesn’t work on Apple Intel based systems….just fyi.

Hope this is helpful.

• This reply was modified 9 months ago by xeon.

You want to rotate the entire scene instead of using Orbit controls?

Here are two options to choose from if you really want to drag rotate the object to make your scene move. The traditional way of doing this is the way KDV has outlined above.

I personally prefer option 2.

demo: https://v3d.net/t3v
Zipfile with blend file:https://v3d.net/t40

Overview:
The scene has a large box representing the walls and floor. Box is single sided with normals flipped. I was being lazy.

In the center of the box is Suzanne. Inside Suzanne is an Empty called Cam_Target. The starting position of the camera has an Empty called Cam_Start_Location. The Camera is parented to the Cam_Target. This allows the rotation of the Cam_Target and the camera will orbit correctly around the Suzzanne and the room.

Additionally there are Rotation constraints on the Cam_Target they are set to -30 and 30. You can set them up however you want.

I provided two puzzle options. Option 1 is super simple and Option 2 provides you more control.

You can learn more about them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvz1CZleReE

• This reply was modified 9 months ago by xeon.
• This reply was modified 9 months ago by xeon.

0 and 0 will not work. it’s the same as 0 and 360 use -xx and +xx.

be sure you are using verge3D 4.5 or higher.
Be sure to use them small blue gear in the drag rotate puzzle and turn on “use space option”