BabylonJS
Feature: Need more perspectives (Orthogonal left, right, top, bottom)
Hello, I'm currently trying out BabylonJS because I'm dissatisfied with NeedleEngine in Unity. I have a lot of experience with Unity, Blender and many other 3D editors and CAD programmes.
And what I miss after just a few minutes in BJS.Editor are clearly the quickly accessible perspectives. So top, left, right, bottom in orthogonal display. To quickly align objects and so on. In my workflow, I constantly switch between views very quickly. Therefore, I would really like to see this feature.
I tried to solve the problem with separate cameras set to ortho, but that's also awkward because their position and viewing angle are not easy to change. They should be as easy to use as the editor preview camera.
Thank you very much for this great project, I will continue to follow it.
Hi @RobTranquillo ! Thanks a lot for those feedbacks!!
I totally agree with you. If you have in mind shortcuts or something else to switch views coming from your other software, I take it.
I put this issue as feature request. I have to finish integration of sprites first (this is under highly developement) and then I start your request.
I don't really need any extra keyboard shortcuts. One or two windows with independent perspectives are enough for me. As a heavy Unity user, I find Unity's Orientation Gizmo very handy for easy control. It allows you to switch quickly and precisely between perspectives and spatial representation.
One small request on the side. Since every engine has its own peculiarities in how it uses the axes, please just add the axis labels. ;-)
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c6fc635f-8fbf-4c44-b369-789303833aac
@RobTranquillo I just released 5.2.1 where I added labels on XYZ axis. Also, axis are click which will change the rotation of the camera. Now when clicking on a camera in the graph panel or the preview panel, a preview of the camera appears on bottom left.
I would really love you to try it and give me feedbacks here, if there are, so we can build a cool feature together