Clockwise Rotation in OrthographicView

[michaelsklepowich]

Hello, I am using an OrthographicView to display a 2D manifold from a PointCloudLayer.

I want to create a set of "view control" buttons that the user can use to rotate the viewport both clockwise and counterclockwise. However, the documentation explicitly states that the OrthographicView does not rotate.

I was able to map rotating and panning to buttons with the OrbitView in a previous issue, but I am not sure where to start this time as OrthographicView does not have any rotation props.

My first thought was to create a modified OrbitView that behaves like an OrthographicView but can still rotate, though I wanted to open an issue to ask for any input.

Love the work you guys are doing, thanks.

[Pessimistress]

You can create your own view class by extending the OrthographicView. It's not hard to add rotation support by rotating the viewMatrix here:

https://github.com/uber/deck.gl/blob/7.1-release/modules/core/src/views/orthographic-view.js#L33

Although rotation will add complication to panning.

[tgorkin]

Closing due to inactivity. Please comment and reopen if you still have questions.

[esiegel]

I would love to have this task reopened. I think supporting rotations would be a nice feature. I definitely see it as preferable to using model matrices for every layer.