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Trackball Controls

Video Lecture

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Description

TrackballControls is similar to OrbitControls. However, it does not maintain a constant camera up vector. That means that the camera can orbit past it's polar extremes. It won't flip to stay the right side up.

Lesson Script

./src/client/client.ts

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import * as THREE from 'three'
import { TrackballControls } from 'three/examples/jsm/controls/TrackballControls'
import Stats from 'three/examples/jsm/libs/stats.module'

const scene = new THREE.Scene()
scene.add(new THREE.AxesHelper(5))

const camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(
    75,
    window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight,
    0.1,
    1000
)
camera.position.z = 2

const renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer()
renderer.setSize(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight)
document.body.appendChild(renderer.domElement)

const controls = new TrackballControls(camera, renderer.domElement)
// controls.addEventListener('change', () => console.log("Controls Change"))
// controls.addEventListener('start', () => console.log("Controls Start Event"))
// controls.addEventListener('end', () => console.log("Controls End Event"))
// controls.enabled = false
// controls.rotateSpeed = 1.0
// controls.zoomSpeed = 1.2
// controls.panSpeed = 0.8
// controls.keys = ['KeyA', 'KeyS', 'KeyD']
// controls.noPan = true //default false
// controls.noRotate = true //default false
// controls.noZoom = true //default false
// controls.staticMoving = true //default false
// controls.dynamicDampingFactor = 0.1
// controls.maxDistance = 4
// controls.minDistance = 2

const geometry = new THREE.BoxGeometry()
const material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({
    color: 0x00ff00,
    wireframe: true,
})

const cube = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material)
scene.add(cube)

window.addEventListener('resize', onWindowResize, false)
function onWindowResize() {
    camera.aspect = window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight
    camera.updateProjectionMatrix()
    renderer.setSize(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight)
    render()
}

const stats = Stats()
document.body.appendChild(stats.dom)

function animate() {
    requestAnimationFrame(animate)

    // trackball controls needs to be updated in the animation loop before it will work
    controls.update()

    render()

    stats.update()
}

function render() {
    renderer.render(scene, camera)
}

animate()

TrackballControls (Official Documentation)

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