All,
I have tried many things to try and get around a problem I am having with tracking a DynamicObject using the DynamicObjectView functionality; note that I am using b28 and not using the Cesium Viewer widget.
Specifically, I’m finding that the camera zooms too far along the Z-axis once the DynamicObjectView.update is first called. The user has to then zoom out and “twist/rotate” the camera to find the newly tracked object. The update() portion of the DynamicObjectView is working as expected and beats having to update the camera position with each tick; however, the initial zoom is not acting as desired. X and Y position elements may also be slightly off but Z-axis is the main issue.
I’ve developed a several theories while working on this issue but have not been able to prove/disprove any of them.
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The zoom is moving to the position of DynamicObject’s first time block (i.e. availability start/end) and not the position based on the clock’s current time.
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The DynamicObject simply has the wrong position; or the position for the current time is somehow off from Ceisum’s internal clock.
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Our setting of farToNear ratio of 100 is not a good practice; but changing this value does not seem to help.
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Something else is happening in the Viewer widget that I am not accounting for…
Other information:
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Issue occurs with billboards and models.
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When setting up the DynamicObjectView object I have tried using UNIT_SPHERE and the Globe as the ellipsoid.
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I see the same behavior regardless of whether the DynamicObject is:
a) Picked from the Scene
b) Fetched from a list of our locally managed DynamicObjects
c) Created on the fly using the position information as provided from the selected object on the Scene.
I don’t have any source code to provide at this moment but I wonder if anyone might arrive at some conclusions based on the information I’ve provided above.
Thanks for your help!