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Support for panning the camera via keyboard, mouse and touch input

See original GitHub issue

This is a feature of OrbitControls that we left out of SmoothControls when we implemented it in #288 .

We might implement panning any number of ways, but we should strive to do it such that it helps the user maintain focus on the object in frame.

Here is an example of one possible way to “curve” the camera as it pans out farther and farther so that it never looks fully away from the object in focus:

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Created 4 years ago
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Comments:19 (5 by maintainers)

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elalishcommented, Sep 8, 2020

Okay, well at the very least it’s probably time I put an example of of this on modelviewer.dev. If everyone likes the implementation, then I might put it as an option in our API.

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2manyDisplayscommented, Sep 4, 2020

@elalish
I think the implementation on sketchfab.com is quite intuitive and works very well. On the desktop it is right-click and on mobile is using two fingers. I know it’s probably not that easy, but It would be awesome if you could implement this feature in the future. Without it, as a User I can’t really inspect every detail on an object.

Actually I have a hard time finding an example how panning on right-click could be implemented by myself. Do you mean that the cameraTarget can be changed by using buttons? Or is there an input event I can use when right-click is pressed and cycle through a list of cameraTargets?