Change view angle of an orthographical top-down camera

[jacquesr]

Hi,

 

I have a top-down camera set up as orthographical. Now, I first tried it with position.z = 0 and then we had a forum discussion that revealed that we had to set z to at least 0.1. Else it would never draw the scene top-down

 

I then wanted to change the angle from which the cam is looking and exchanged z 0.1 with x 0.1 so that it would (hopefully) look with the upper edge of the screen aligned along the Z axis instead of the X axis (I hope it's clear what I mean)

 

That didn't work. How do I correctly achieve that?

To clarify what I want:

imagine we have a long cubic mesh that has an " | " shape when looked at from above.

It now appears as " | " and I want it to appear as " _ "

 

Note: Turning the mesh is not an option!

[iiceman]

Hmm, hard to imagine without a playground to look at

 

That Camera is a FreeCamera, right? Maybe you can change the UpVector... http://doc.babylonjs.com/classes/2.2/Camera#upvector-vector3-classes-2-2-vector3-

[jacquesr]

here is the example, I would like to have the cube length drawn on the width of the view instead of the height

 

http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#ATRFZ

[iiceman]

Uhm.. then simply set the rotation around the y-axis: http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#ATRFZ#1 no?

[jacquesr]

that was kind of too easy and I think I did that when I was on 2.1 and it did not work oO

 

thank you very much