Asset Store improvements: Orbit Camera Controls, Custom Assets

Rechi · August 5, 2023, 9:11am

First of all thanks for the continuos work on the store, it is already a great time saver!

One question (and maybe potential for improvement):
Currently we arleady have the orbit-camera-Script in the store, but the control scripts have to be added manually (mouse, touch). Could they be integrated as well? My suggestion would be to add them to the Orbit Camera script directly, as this asset already creates a new folder (currently with only 1 file, the orbit-camera script).

Another question concerns custom assets: As I’m currently building a kind of framework it would be handy to have the possibility to add own assets to the asset store. Mabye a user could have a kind of “asset store project” which defines the assets which are added to his/her asset store. I use a similar workflow already (where I manually copy the assets over) but as the asset store is directly integrated it would make sense to maybe think in this direction, see also:

Greetings and nice Weekend!

Leonidas · August 5, 2023, 9:42am

Hi @Rechi,

Both are good suggestions! Regarding the orbit camera script I usually use the one provided in the engine repo. It includes all script types in a single script file. It may be a good suggestion replacing the version in the Asset Store with that one?

github.com

playcanvas/engine/blob/main/scripts/camera/orbit-camera.js

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//                             Orbit Camera Script                            //
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
var OrbitCamera = pc.createScript('orbitCamera');

OrbitCamera.attributes.add('distanceMax', { type: 'number', default: 0, title: 'Distance Max', description: 'Setting this at 0 will give an infinite distance limit' });
OrbitCamera.attributes.add('distanceMin', { type: 'number', default: 0, title: 'Distance Min' });
OrbitCamera.attributes.add('pitchAngleMax', { type: 'number', default: 90, title: 'Pitch Angle Max (degrees)' });
OrbitCamera.attributes.add('pitchAngleMin', { type: 'number', default: -90, title: 'Pitch Angle Min (degrees)' });

OrbitCamera.attributes.add('inertiaFactor', {
    type: 'number',
    default: 0,
    title: 'Inertia Factor',
    description: 'Higher value means that the camera will continue moving after the user has stopped dragging. 0 is fully responsive.'
});

OrbitCamera.attributes.add('focusEntity', {
    type: 'entity',
    title: 'Focus Entity',

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Rechi · August 9, 2023, 1:13pm

Hi @Leonidas, thanks for your reply. As far as I can tell this file doesn’t work with click events, and therefore needs the mouse-input.js as well. Or am I missing something here?

eproasim · August 9, 2023, 2:01pm

Hi @Rechi,

Taking a look at the file that was linked, the mouse input scripts are all included in the same file. You will have to manually assign those scripts to the objects in your scene, but they can definitely reside in the same file.

Rechi · August 9, 2023, 2:45pm

Ah, multiple scripts within 1 file, sorry my fault. Thanks for the clearification!