Mt3D Configuration

• Config: Selects 3D Config

• Axis Lock: Constrains the rotation to a specific axis, or allow free rotation. Options are:

  • Off

  • X Axis

  • Y Axis

  • Z Axis

• Axis Lock Local: Uses the local axis instead of the world axis if axis lock is on.

• Active during screen wide telestration?: If the button to is to stay active when the screen-wide telestrator is on, set to On. The default is off, which means the button cannot be triggered when telestration is on.

• Hit Coordinate Type: Selects the Coordinate system to use. Click either Local, World or Screen.

2D Configuration

• Config: Select 2D Config

• Momentum: Enable movement or rotation with momentum after the object is released.

  • Friction: Set the amount of friction used when momentum is enabled

    Note: Using this feature will conflict with any externally scripted or other animations applied to the container.

• Lock Translation: Allow only rotation and scaling of the object

• Lock Translation (Screen X): Prevent movement left-to-right on the screen

• Lock Translation (Screen Y): Prevent movement up-and-down on the screen

• Lock Translation (Object X): Prevent movement along the object’s local X axis

• Lock Translation (Object Y): Prevent movement along the object’s local Y axis

• Lock Rotation: Prevent rotation of the object

• Lock Scale: Prevent resizing of the object

• Active during screen wide telestration?: If the button to is to stay active when the screen-wide telestrator is on, set to On. The default is off, which means the button cannot be triggered when telestration is on.

• Hit Coordinate Type: Click either Local, World or Screen. This selects the Coordinate system to use.

Output Configuration

• Config: Select Output Config

• Id: To give additional context in the handler script, specify a string that will identify any notifications dispatched by this plug-in. This is often included as an argument for the event so a common script may handle events from a number of plug-ins.

• Set Shared Memory: If ON enables shared memory to be updated for the plug-in notifications.

  • Shared Memory Prefix: This sets a ‘prefix name’ to be prepended to the shared memory variables maintained by the plug-ins notifications. For plug-ins that maintain multiple fields each field name has the prefix prepended to it followed by a dot ‘.’ so as to mimic member access to an object, i.e: if the prefix is ‘Obj’ the fields ‘field1’ and ‘field2’ would be identified with the strings ‘Obj.field1’ and ‘Obj.field2’. The shared memory field ‘Obj’ is also maintained and is simply an integer that is modified every time any of its ‘subfields’ is updated.

  • Shared Memory Type: Click either Global, Scene, or Distributed. This selects the shared memory area to update.

• Set Data Pool: Shows ‘you wish’ plug-in notifications to set a Data Pool variable

  • Data Pool Variable: Shows the name of the Data Pool variable to have set.

• Active during screen wide telestration?: If the button to is to stay active when the screen-wide telestrator is on, set to On. The default is off, which means the button cannot be triggered when telestration is on.

• Hit Coordinate Type: Click either Local, World or Screen. This selects the Coordinate system to use.

Events and Notifications

The events dispatched by Mt3dControl are:

OnGrab (when object is ‘grabbed’):

sub OnGrab (HitContainer as String, Id as String, HitPoint as Vertex, plug-inContainer as String, FirstChildContainer as String)

end sub

• HitContainer as String

• Id as String

• HitPoint as Vertex

• plug-inContainer as String

• FirstChildContainer as String
  OnGrabUpdate (when object is moved):

sub OnGrabUpdate (HitContainer as String, Id as String, Position as Vertex, Rotation as Vertex, Scale as Vertex, Pressure as Double)

end sub

• HitContainer as String

• Id as String

• Position as Vertex

• Rotation as Vertex

• Scale as Vertex

• Pressure as Double
  OnGrabRelease (when object is “released”):

sub OnGrabRelease (HitContainer as String, Id as String)

end sub

• HitContainer as String

• Id as String

The Shared Memory Field names updated are:

• HitContainer (the name of the container that was “hit”)

• Id (the user ID string entered in the notification interface)

• HitPoint

• plug-inContainer

• FirstChildContainer

• Position

• Rotation

• Scale

• Pressure

• State

The Data Pool structure updated is:

• Mt3dControl:

  • string HitContainer

  • string Id

  • string HitPoint

  • string plug-inContainer

  • string FirstChildContainer

  • string Position

  • string Rotation

  • string Scale

  • string Pressure

  • string State

To Create a Simple Scene with the Mt3D Control plug-in

1. Create a new Scene.

2. Add a new group Container.

3. Add a Cube Geometry to the Container.

4. Add the Mt3D Control plug-in to the Container.

5. Open the Scene in On Air. Use the touch input device to transform the object.

6. Use the Mt3D Control plug-in editor to modify the plug-in behavior, as required.