Camera Controls
This advanced example uses the Navigator’s setAsCamera interface in response to touch event gestures. It overrides the default pan, zoom and rotate behavior.
- one-finger pan moves the geographic location of the camera,
- two-finger pinch-zoom adjusts the camera altitude,
- two-finger rotate rotates the camera about its own axis,
- three-finger tilt tilts the camera about its own axis.
CameraControlFragment.java
The CameraControlFragment class extends the BasicGlobeFragment and overrides the createWorldWindow method. In createWorldWindow, we create a CameraController: a subclass of the BasicWorldWindController that processes gestures and updates the view via the Navigator. The fragment sets the WorldWindow’s worldWindowController property to an instance of our custom controller.
public class CameraControlFragment extends BasicGlobeFragment {
/**
* Creates a new WorldWindow object with a custom WorldWindowController.
*/
@Override
public WorldWindow createWorldWindow() {
// Let the super class (BasicGlobeFragment) do the creation
WorldWindow wwd = super.createWorldWindow();
// Override the default "look at" gesture behavior with a camera centric gesture controller
wwd.setWorldWindowController(new CameraController());
// Create a camera position above KOXR airport, Oxnard, CA
Camera camera = new Camera();
camera.set(34.2, -119.2,
10000, WorldWind.ABSOLUTE,
90, // Looking east
70, // Lookup up from nadir
0); // No roll
// Apply the new camera position
Globe globe = wwd.getGlobe();
wwd.getNavigator().setAsCamera(globe, camera);
return wwd;
}
/**
* A custom WorldWindController that uses gestures to control the camera directly via the setAsCamera interface
* instead of the default setAsLookAt interface.
*/
private class CameraController extends BasicWorldWindowController {
protected Camera camera = new Camera();
protected Camera beginCamera = new Camera();
@Override
protected void handlePan(GestureRecognizer recognizer) {
int state = recognizer.getState();
float dx = recognizer.getTranslationX();
float dy = recognizer.getTranslationY();
if (state == WorldWind.BEGAN) {
this.gestureDidBegin();
this.lastX = 0;
this.lastY = 0;
} else if (state == WorldWind.CHANGED) {
// Get the navigator's current position.
double lat = this.camera.latitude;
double lon = this.camera.longitude;
double alt = this.camera.altitude;
// Convert the translation from screen coordinates to degrees. Use the navigator's range as a metric for
// converting screen pixels to meters, and use the globe's radius for converting from meters to arc degrees.
double metersPerPixel = this.wwd.pixelSizeAtDistance(alt);
double forwardMeters = (dy - this.lastY) * metersPerPixel;
double sideMeters = -(dx - this.lastX) * metersPerPixel;
this.lastX = dx;
this.lastY = dy;
double globeRadius = this.wwd.getGlobe().getRadiusAt(lat, lon);
double forwardDegrees = Math.toDegrees(forwardMeters / globeRadius);
double sideDegrees = Math.toDegrees(sideMeters / globeRadius);
// Adjust the change in latitude and longitude based on the navigator's heading.
double heading = this.camera.heading;
double headingRadians = Math.toRadians(heading);
double sinHeading = Math.sin(headingRadians);
double cosHeading = Math.cos(headingRadians);
lat += forwardDegrees * cosHeading - sideDegrees * sinHeading;
lon += forwardDegrees * sinHeading + sideDegrees * cosHeading;
// If the navigator has panned over either pole, compensate by adjusting the longitude and heading to move
// the navigator to the appropriate spot on the other side of the pole.
if (lat < -90 || lat > 90) {
this.camera.latitude = Location.normalizeLatitude(lat);
this.camera.longitude = Location.normalizeLongitude(lon + 180);
} else if (lon < -180 || lon > 180) {
this.camera.latitude = lat;
this.camera.longitude = Location.normalizeLongitude(lon);
} else {
this.camera.latitude = lat;
this.camera.longitude = lon;
}
//this.camera.heading = WWMath.normalizeAngle360(heading + sideDegrees * 1000);
this.wwd.getNavigator().setAsCamera(this.wwd.getGlobe(), this.camera);
this.wwd.requestRedraw();
} else if (state == WorldWind.ENDED || state == WorldWind.CANCELLED) {
this.gestureDidEnd();
}
}
@Override
protected void handlePinch(GestureRecognizer recognizer) {
int state = recognizer.getState();
float scale = ((PinchRecognizer) recognizer).getScale();
if (state == WorldWind.BEGAN) {
this.gestureDidBegin();
} else if (state == WorldWind.CHANGED) {
if (scale != 0) {
// Apply the change in scale to the navigator, relative to when the gesture began.
scale = ((scale - 1) * 0.1f) + 1; // dampen the scale factor
this.camera.altitude = this.camera.altitude * scale;
this.applyLimits(this.camera);
this.wwd.getNavigator().setAsCamera(this.wwd.getGlobe(), this.camera);
this.wwd.requestRedraw();
}
} else if (state == WorldWind.ENDED || state == WorldWind.CANCELLED) {
this.gestureDidEnd();
}
}
@Override
protected void handleRotate(GestureRecognizer recognizer) {
int state = recognizer.getState();
float rotation = ((RotationRecognizer) recognizer).getRotation();
if (state == WorldWind.BEGAN) {
this.gestureDidBegin();
this.lastRotation = 0;
} else if (state == WorldWind.CHANGED) {
// Apply the change in rotation to the navigator, relative to the navigator's current values.
double headingDegrees = this.lastRotation - rotation;
this.camera.heading = WWMath.normalizeAngle360(this.camera.heading + headingDegrees);
this.lastRotation = rotation;
this.wwd.getNavigator().setAsCamera(this.wwd.getGlobe(), this.camera);
this.wwd.requestRedraw();
} else if (state == WorldWind.ENDED || state == WorldWind.CANCELLED) {
this.gestureDidEnd();
}
}
@Override
protected void handleTilt(GestureRecognizer recognizer) {
int state = recognizer.getState();
float dx = recognizer.getTranslationX();
float dy = recognizer.getTranslationY();
if (state == WorldWind.BEGAN) {
this.gestureDidBegin();
this.lastRotation = 0;
} else if (state == WorldWind.CHANGED) {
// Apply the change in tilt to the navigator, relative to when the gesture began.
double headingDegrees = 180 * dx / this.wwd.getWidth();
double tiltDegrees = -180 * dy / this.wwd.getHeight();
this.camera.heading = WWMath.normalizeAngle360(this.beginCamera.heading + headingDegrees);
this.camera.tilt = this.beginCamera.tilt + tiltDegrees;
this.applyLimits(camera);
this.wwd.getNavigator().setAsCamera(this.wwd.getGlobe(), this.camera);
this.wwd.requestRedraw();
} else if (state == WorldWind.ENDED || state == WorldWind.CANCELLED) {
this.gestureDidEnd();
}
}
@Override
protected void gestureDidBegin() {
if (this.activeGestures++ == 0) {
this.wwd.getNavigator().getAsCamera(this.wwd.getGlobe(), this.beginCamera);
this.camera.set(this.beginCamera);
}
}
protected void applyLimits(Camera camera) {
double distanceToExtents = this.wwd.distanceToViewGlobeExtents();
double minAltitude = 100;
double maxAltitude = distanceToExtents;
camera.altitude = WWMath.clamp(camera.altitude, minAltitude, maxAltitude);
// Limit the tilt to between nadir and the horizon (roughly)
double r = wwd.getGlobe().getRadiusAt(camera.latitude, camera.latitude);
double maxTilt = Math.toDegrees(Math.asin(r / (r + camera.altitude)));
double minTilt = 0;
camera.tilt = WWMath.clamp(camera.tilt, minTilt, maxTilt);
}
}
}
