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Re: Use mouse to control camera view in opengl window

2018-10-01T18:00:34+00:00

Yes that works great! I definitely thought I had tried that before without result but apparently not.

Statistics: Posted by richardbloemenkamp — Mon Oct 01, 2018 6:00 pm

Re: Use mouse to control camera view in opengl window

2018-09-30T12:31:46+00:00

Try holding the CONTROL or ALT key + left or middle or left mouse button to rotate, pan or zoom the camera, while dragging the mouse.

Statistics: Posted by Erwin Coumans — Sun Sep 30, 2018 12:31 pm

Re: Use mouse to control camera view in opengl window

2018-09-28T17:41:32+00:00

I think most of us have found the same issue and then turned to programmatically work around it. I think it will be improved in a future version.
Hope the example below helps you a bit further.

Example of moving the camera around programmatically with the keys (not the mouse sorry) while staying directed towards object called 'dog'

Code:

while (1):    cubePos, cubeOrn = p.getBasePositionAndOrientation(dog)    p.resetDebugVisualizerCamera( cameraDistance=cdist, cameraYaw=cyaw, cameraPitch=cpitch, cameraTargetPosition=cubePos)    keys = p.getKeyboardEvents()    #Keys to change camera    if keys.get(100):  #D        cyaw+=1    if keys.get(97):   #A        cyaw-=1    if keys.get(99):   #C        cpitch+=1    if keys.get(102):  #F        cpitch-=1    if keys.get(122):  #Z        cdist+=.01    if keys.get(120):  #X        cdist-=.01

Statistics: Posted by richardbloemenkamp — Fri Sep 28, 2018 5:41 pm

Re: Use mouse to control camera view in opengl window

2018-09-19T14:17:49+00:00

I'm not sure how to do it through mouse control, but you can use the pybullet.resetDebugVisualizerCamera() function explained in the API to change the camera view.

Statistics: Posted by cmoses — Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:17 pm

Use mouse to control camera view in opengl window

2018-07-20T23:24:02+00:00

Hi all,
I'm new to pybullet. I was wondering if it is possible to control the 3D view of the opengl window using the mouse? I can only zoom in and out, but not other operations as rotating the view.
I mean just moving the 3D view as you can do with most viewers.
Does this require code or there is some trick with the mouse that I haven't discovered? (Using python3 in ubuntu 16.04).
Thanks.

Statistics: Posted by cdm — Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:24 pm