New feature request

[chloesun]

I'm trying to extend the functionality of GLTFViewer component. One method is to highlight the entity based on the given id, and another one is to reset the view, and I tried to implement by myself:

  highlightEntity = (id) => {
    let lastEntity = null;
    const { scene } = this.viewer;
    const currentEntity = scene.objects[id];  // return undefined here
    if (!lastEntity || id !== lastEntity.id) {
      if (lastEntity) {
        lastEntity.highlighted = false;
      }
      lastEntity = currentEntity;
      currentEntity.highlighted = true;
    } else {
      if (lastEntity) {
        lastEntity.highlighted = false;
        lastEntity = null;
      }
    }
    currentEntity.highlighted = true;
  };

While trying to console.log(scene.objects), I was expecting to get the object contains all the objects, but I got an empty object { }, but when I click the little triangle, I can see the objects inside..and I can't access the value. Hovering the little i icon, it shows Value below was evaluated just now

About resetting the view, I found this https://xeokit.github.io/xeokit-sdk/docs/class/src/viewer/Viewer.js~Viewer.html#instance-method-resetView,

resetView=( )=>{
 this.viewer.resetView();
}

and I added a button in the render method to trigger resetView, but this doesn't work...

Hope to get some input from you guys, thanks!

[barnabasmolnar]

Regarding your 2nd question:

I believe I've already run into this issue and I seem to recall that the resetView method is not fully implemented in the xeokit library:

https://xeokit.github.io/xeokit-sdk/docs/file/src/viewer/Viewer.js.html#lineNumber241

Might be worth opening an issue about this over there.

As for your highlighting question, I'll try and have a look at it sometime in the near future hopefully.

[chloesun]

@barnabasmolnar Thanks, I already submitted an issue over there, just found this method https://xeokit.github.io/xeokit-sdk/docs/class/src/viewer/scene/scene/Scene.js~Scene.html#instance-method-setObjectsHighlighted looks like it may solve my first issue

[chloesun]

I tried to use that method and it leads to the same problem. I tested with an id of an object and went through the debugger to figure out what's wrong:

Pass this.objects to _withEntities and you can see the this.objects which is entities is an empty{ } object, so no entity is selected and highlighted. @xeolabs