Switch controllers

[PavelBoytchev]

Try this: before switching to OrbitControls dispose it, recreate it and switch to the new instance. This is not an elegant approach, but if this works (I’ve never tried it), you will have some basic solution until you find a better solution.

There was a long discussion here about the problems of switching from one controls to another:

Restore camera properties irrespective of controls

As of now, the ThreeJS library provides the ability to use one of its 8 control “addons” (Arcball, Drag, FirstPerson, Fly, Orbit, PointerLock, Trackball and Transform). In my project, I allow the user to choose one of these to handle stuff in the scene, by disposing the “old” control and recreating the “new” one. As a side note, some time ago, one of the ThreeJS developers recommended that I should use the .enabled property of the control instead of my disposing + recreation system, but of cours…