Re: [Visualpython-users] Control camera zoom?

[Craig B. <cd...@gm...>]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 14:49, Craig Berry <cd...@gm...> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 13:53, Bruce Sherwood <Bru...@nc...> wrote:
>> Could you describe briefly what it is that you want to do?
>
> I want to allow the user to control the camera with middle- and
> right-drag mouse gestures, but also, if they click on an object, slew
> the camera to point at that object from a particular distance.  I can
> slew the camera's aim point by changing scene.center, but I'm having
> the difficulties described previously with putting it at a particular
> (apparent) distance from the selected object.

So...anybody have a clue on how to do that elegantly?

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