721085 - [Tilt] Controls are sometimes unintuitive (especially when panning via mouse/keyboard)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Graveyard :: Developer Tools: 3D View, defect, P2)

Description

[Trif Andrei-Alin[:AlinT]]

Steps to reproduce:
1.Load any page in FF 12. Ex: google.com
2.Inspect page and enter 3D view(Right click -> Inpect Element -> 3D View)
3.Positionate the page upside down facing backwards.
4.Move the page up and down using right click(or up & down buttons)

Expected results:
Page moves correctly.

Actual results:
Page moves in the opposite direction.

Comment 1

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

the arcball doesn't reorient itself based on your current orientation. This is currently working as-designed, though I can understand the confusion.

Comment 2

[Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp]]

Let's turn this bug into something more general.
From an IRC talk: "the controls we have manipulate the orientation of the visualization, the controls I want put me in a spaceship flying around the visualization". An enhanced arcball and/or an alternate control system would be nice.

Comment 3

[Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp]]

Attachment: v1

Recycled from experiments in bug 731652. Panning works like it should, both via keyboard/mouse. Added Q and E as roll controls. You can't really roll with the mouse. Tests fail.

Comment 4

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

not bad. It's an extra range of motion that could be helpful for positioning. The roll is fixed about the center origin again though so at extreme ends of the page, the effect is much more pronounced. i.e., less precise.

Comment 5

[Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp]]

As discussed on IRC, actually making this work properly would require a significant refactoring effort, to distinguish between a "model" and a "camera" (basically they're respective matrix transformations) in Tilt. Since this doesn't directly concern this bug, filed bug 734038.

Comment 7

[Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp]]

Attachment: v2

Played with this a bit during the weekend.

Comment 8

[Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp]]

New component triage. Filter on HORSE MASKS.

Comment 9

[Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp]]

Filter on TILT QUODLIBET.

Comment 10

[Tim Nguyen :ntim]

The 3D View has been removed in Firefox 47. Closing all bugs inside that component as the component will be moved to Firefox Graveyard.

Filter on #BYETHREEDVIEW.