Hi,

I have a couple of questions about the camera and about animating the scene. I'm using the add-on and its wonderful built-in interactivity blocks, and unfortunately I can't do any coding.

I prepared this simple example scene to illustrate my problem:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0ct7if_2_PuakhvUTVXbXJ4MTg/view?usp=sharing
(sorry, you have to download the .html file and view it in browser)

Basically, I'm doing a product presentation where the product breaks down in pieces by clicking different buttons, so that client can see inside the product and how it's made. As you can see from the example, the parts fly quite far away from the main object, and it's a bit difficult to view the parts from different angles because the camera's target location is centered to the cube. It would help a lot if I could animate the "target location" in the camera's blend4web settings, so that when I click the button, the target location would move to desired location. Then I could rotate around these specific parts (in the example, cones) and then come back to the main assembly as I press the button again.

The new version (14.11) does include "panning mode", which allows user to move the center point by hand. But that doesn't quite solve my problem, because it's easy to lose your focus point somewhere and the rotation easily becomes quite awkward when you can't get the camera to center on the main assembly again. This is purely an aesthetic problem, but it's an important one as in customer projects usability is really important…

Another problem with panning mode is that I can't make stationary billboard buttons anymore, because they move on the screen when the center point moves. If I could animate the target location, I think I could also animate the billboard buttons' locations accordingly, so that they would remain stationary on the screen.

And one more thing that I'm wondering about: is it possible to do non-linear animation with the add-on's logic blocks? I mean animation that's not fixed to the timeline. So as an example: if I wanted to do a scene where these product parts can be opened and closed independently, I wouldn't have to animate every single possible combination of opened and closed parts, but rather just animate every object independently and then have the add-on read and animate them independently as the user clicks them.

I know I could probably do these things with coding, but it would be SO much easier and faster without… And to me at least this camera target location seems like a relatively small thing, as the interface and usability is already there in the add-on. (it's possible to animate the target location in blender but the add-on doesn't recognize it)

Sorry about the long post… This add-on is really powerful and amazing, I'd just want to ensure I'm getting the most of it because it's so cool :)

Hi,

I just wanted to thank you for doing this work, as Blend4web is really an amazing tool! :)

I've been using the addon for a month or two now, and it's fantastic to be able to do simple interactive presentations without any coding. And just when I was thinking "oh, it'd be very nice to have the camera freely move in a space…" you guys put up a new version with just that feature!

One question, though: does this camera panning feature allow animating the target location somehow (when the camera is in "target mode")? I tried to fiddle around, but I couldn't get it to work. I'm trying to do a product presentation where by clicking buttons the product breaks down in pieces, and it would help a lot if I was able to animate the target location while still having the camera freely rotating…

Anyway, this is an amazing addon and I'm really thankful that you've made this freely available. Keep up the good work! :)

Have a nice day,
Aleksi