I am working on project in which I would need to put 2 different camera views. One that shows interior view and other for the exterior view.
Do you have any API tutorial regarding the usage of cameras and custom views? I found this link article but it is still empty. https://support.shapediver.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021881752-Managing-the-camera
I have also realized that there is a camera revert button in viewer settings but if enabled, it always move camera on starting position, so something doesnāt work there.
You can always get the current camera object by calling: api.scene.camera.get()
After youāve defined camera positions (interior and exterior views for example), you can update the camera with: api.scene.camera.updateAsync(cameraObject);
Another useful function is api.scene.camera.zoomAsync(), which will make sure the scene is centered and optimally fills the screen. This corresponds to the āCamera Adjustā parameter of the viewer settings.
The article will include more details about the functions and their various options. Iāll post it here when it becomes available.
Regarding the āCamera Revertā setting, it is meant to always move back the model in its default position, as you described. What behaviour did you expect this setting to have instead?
Thank you for the quick introduction to camera setting. Regarding the āCamera Revertā: I think that this tool will be more functional if you include ācamera revertā button. For example, looking some object from different point of view and than if you want, you can to revert it to default position with this button .
Right now, I think that it doesnāt have so much sense, because if you are end user and want to see some object by 3d orbiting view, you should probably want to spend some time looking an object from some new point of view. However it is impossible with automatic revert that send you immediately to start position. Simply, I canāt see in which situation this option automatic revert might be useful
The automatic revert was found useful in e-commerce applications, in particular for end users who donāt have much experience interacting with 3d scenes.
The behaviour you want also exists in the viewer, with a perfectible interface Iāll admit. Using the camera button on the top right of the viewer window, a single click will center and zoom on the scene contents, while a double click will revert the camera position to its default position.
@mathieu1 just playing around with camera as well and kind of confused by the default direction the camera is pointing. Its looking towards negative X and Y, whereas I would assume the default should be exactly 180 degrees in the other direction.
What would be really nice though would be to actually just be able to set the default camera settings in ShapeDiver. In ShapeDiver I just position the camera where it is nice and then say āset default positionā. So right now its easier to just rotate my whole scene at the very end before outputting in Grasshopper.
Also is there a way to set the direction of the shadow? The spotlight seems to be in a fixed position!?
I think its nice to have all these API options, but it would be much nicer to have those options in the backend of ShapeDiver. Not everybody wants to fiddle with Javascript just to adjust those basic things.
I hope some (a lot) of improvements are coming to the ShapeDiver backend, like also saving default camera settings or simply being able to replace a .gh file and not upload again and set everything from scratch when I update a file. Thank you!
Last question about the āCamera Adjustā functionality as itās not really explained anywhere and has a rather generic name.
So from what I can tell it takes the bounding box center of the scene and sets that as target?
Since the target is usually very easily available in GH already, could you please add a way to pass a camera target to ShapeDiver from within GH?
Otherwise what would be the way to do it? Output it to the API and then use the API to set the target? Is there a way to pass ONLY the target and not the position to the camera?
I think the default position of the camera very much depends on the contents of thes cene. However, it is already possible to set the default camera position and target on ShapeDiver: whenever you are in Edit mode, the current position of the camera when you hit āSave Settingsā will be used for the default camera settings of the model. We are aware that this feature should be made more explicit.
In terms of the light and shadow directions, this will be the object of an upcoming update to the viewer. The new viewer settings will allow full control of the light scene, including addition and removal of any type of lights and the possibility to drag and drop the light position and target directly in the 3D scene. This update will be ready in the next few weeks, I will post an update here when it is released.
When it comes to re-uploading models, I just gave an answer in the related topic.
Finally, regarding the Camera Adjust functionality, you are right that it uses the centroid of the bounding box of the scene as a target. We do have plans to add components to the ShapeDiver plugin for controlling camera settings directly from Grasshopper, which should make it more convenient. In the meantime, you can always update camera position and target (independently) using the API camera interface.
I saw this post and thought I could add my question here as well.
The camera movement works very well for me. To make things more comfortably, I saw that there is a variable called CameraType that has all the standard perspectives (ātopā, āfrontāā¦). However, I have not figured out how to use this variable yet.
Say I want to have the perspective view for {x:100, y:100, z:0}. How would I do that with the embedded functionality? I know how to do it manually with my own values for cameraPos and targetPos and the function api.scene.camera.updateAsync({cameraPos, targetPos})
So this would just make things more comfortable and itās better if I do not implement my own function for that if the functionality already exists. Thank you!
