I’m trying to make panning in Babylon a bit better, the way I know it from Cinema4D (I think) is pretty good: [2019-03-03%2011_06_07] As you can see, while panning the camera, the object you’re panning it against always stays under your mouse cursor. This gives you very precise control over your o…

Here’s a way: Pick a mesh Put a virtual plane at the picked point, facing the camera Use the cursor movement on the plane to pan the camera manually https://playground.babylonjs.com/#GD4NPB#1

@Gijs Wow! Did… you… just… wrote me a complete functional example of my use case? That’s so awesome!

That’s how we are :slight_smile: (…awesome :)) Thanks @gijs !

Another way to do it, simply using pickedPoint’s (assuming a ‘ground’ mesh is always behind the cursor), also disabled y-axis, https://playground.babylonjs.com/#GD4NPB#2

Does not seem to work as good as @Gijs solution, when picking a point on the cube the point does not always end up under my cursor (it looks like it’s always picking the ground plane?)

Correct, as i wrote and the picking predicate indicates ( (m) =>{ return m.name === ‘ground’} ) It pans according to a pick on the ground mesh :slight_smile: It’s a simple solution, @Gijs solution is the way to go, if you must be able to click anywhere and have the cursor stay at the ~exact same …

Thanks for your explanations @aWeirdo :slight_smile:

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Gijs March 3, 2019, 3:32pm 2

Here’s a way:

Pick a mesh
Put a virtual plane at the picked point, facing the camera
Use the cursor movement on the plane to pan the camera manually

https://playground.babylonjs.com/#GD4NPB#1

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