I would like to enter a standard “WSAD” and “mouse looking” first person walk-though mode with face collision and “ground” detection; very similar to the current “walk” mode, but couldn’t edit anything. (‘shift’ enters a “fly” mode). I’m thinking primarily to be used for demonstrations or showing off your model.
A single click on any active components would activate the next interactive thing (like changing steve’s shirt colour)
Variable for scale & speed could be set. (Field of view as seen under the zoom tool could also be set from here.)
If sketchy-physics was part of it, then you could set it to bump/move objects as you move too.
Perhaps be able to load a model to use as your “cursor” and have a 3rd person/angel on shoulder viewpoint.
{A 3D mouse comes close to this, but I’ve not had much success with using one}
Another thought: in this mode you could “warp” to a location via r-clicking or specific key stroke when your cursor was over something.
Maybe you could also show “pins” for each scene - clicking/double clicking on them would move you to that scene.
Yet another thought: it would be nice to have a shortcut key (f something?) that would enter a this ‘presentation mode’: maximise the work area and hide all the toolbars and windows until the shortcut was activated again.
We’ve asked for this before… specifically that there be a way that a SKP file could be locked as read-only, and when loaded into SketchUp, that the app went into a read-only mode.
That would both the need for the separate viewer application, and allow the API to be loaded making DC interaction available, and also other non-edit Ruby plugins. (The Viewer does not load the Ruby API.)
I’m not too botherered about read-only; I only want to tidy the workspace for a presentation and make the presentation as smooth as possible.
(Actually I would prefer not to have it read-only - I can quicky pull walls or move objects or hide specific groups or draw lines or measure… I still want an editable model, I just want to move through it like I would in (eg) minecraft.)
I’m reviving this topic to ask if there’s been any progress (or extensions…I couldnt find any) speciifcally to do a “fly and look around” sort of thing, using WASD/Arrow Keys.
Or is there an extension that modifies the Walk tool into a fly/walk tool?
If we can move forward, strafe and look around (like you can in a first person game), strafe, etc, would that be a useful and intuitive function?
We can look…
We can walk…
We can’t look while walking. Why?
Combine a simply Fly mode with a “save camera waypoint” button and you get a pretty nice camera path animation function.
Ah yes. There was another which altered and smoothed the scrollwheel zoom behaviour and timing, That one is pretty cool (also not a proper extension though).
But really we just need it in SketchUp, like, functioning normally and being part of the experience.
