Inverted Camera Navigation

Hi Rocky,

The first thing can be done by coding. If you create an application via the Verge3D App Manager, you’ll have the main js file of your app with the function runCode in it, which looks like that:

function runCode() {
    // add your code here, e.g. console.log('Hello, World!');

}

There you can paste the following lines:

if (app.controls) {
    app.controls.rotateSpeed *= -1;
}

– this just inverts the rotation controls.

Regarding the second question: I think you can do it now by dragging with both left and right buttons pressed. Is this the behavior you are looking for?

You’re welcome!

Such reassigning should also be easy to do, but somehow it was supported only for the Target Camera . We’re going to fix this for the Free Camera in the upcoming max release, which will most likely happen today.

So, to bind it to the left click and to disable other controls you can add the following snippet into the runCode function:

if (app.controls) {
    app.controls.enableRotate = false;
    app.controls.enableZoom = false;
        
    app.controls.mouseButtons.ROTATE = -1;
    app.controls.mouseButtons.ZOOM = -1;
    app.controls.mouseButtons.PAN = v3d.MOUSE.LEFT;
}

Hi Rocky,

it should work if you add the following line into runCode:

app.controls.mouseButtons.ROTATE = -1;

then you can change “app.controls.mouseButtons.PAN” back to “v3d.MOUSE.LEFT”.

It should also work on mobile with 3-fingers drag – this is not customizable at the moment, but we can think about adding the ability to change it to the 1 or 2-fingers action, if you need it.

rockybaceable wrote:

I tried adding the line of code like you suggested… unfortunately, I still cannot get the pan control to be left click and/or 1 finger drag.

Hmm, this is strange. I tested it just now on a simple newly created application and it worked for me.
You said that you were able to make it work on one project, but not on another. So, maybe it depends on a particular scene file, camera settings, etc… Can you provide an example of a project where the left-click binding doesn’t work? Actually, it should be much easier to customize the camera controls than to drag a scene object.

Hi sirhc,

Touch speed is affected by a different property rotateSpeedTouch. So you also need to add this line:

app.controls.rotateSpeedTouch *= -1;