3D View: defining camera position with values from a table

bmscmoreira commented 4 years ago

Feature description. Being able to read camera position (x,y,z,distance,pitch,heading) from a table, by using an expression, and based on current atlas item, would be an invaluable time saver. 3D views need support for atlas and expressions.

roya0045 commented 4 years ago

Making those values data-defined should be relatively straightforward for most contributor that are familiar in c++.

bmscmoreira commented 4 years ago

It would save A LOT of manual work. I'm currently generating automated PDFs from an atlas for all 2D maps, but have to resort to manual input for 3D maps.

AlisterH commented 3 years ago

I think this feature request should really be broader, because unless I'm missing something, there is currently no way to control the exact camera position, or even find out what it is.

It would be good:

to display the camera position and angle in a status bar or something
to be able to manually edit it, like you can edit the "Current map coordinate" and "Current map scale" in the status bar of the main window.
to have a feature like "zoom to selection" which zooms the camera to any selected feature from a vector layer (a little different from your suggestion as it should work without needing to store a camera position in an attribute table)

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3D View: defining camera position with values from a table #35692