Time for Action: Exploring the Showroom

Let's cover an example covering various camera types:

1. Open the ch04_04_camera-types.html file in your browser. You will see something like the following:

2. Go around the world using the sliders in Tracking mode. Cool, huh?
3. Change the camera type to Orbiting mode and do the same.
4. Check that besides the slider controls, both in Tracking and Orbiting mode, you can use your mouse and keyboard to move around the world.
5. In this exercise, we have implemented a camera using two new classes:
   • Camera: To manipulate the camera.
   • Controls: To connect the camera to the canvas. The canvas will now receive mouse and keyboard events and pass them along to the camera.

6. If you are curious, you can see the source code of these two classes in the common/js directory. We have applied the concepts explained in this chapter to build these two classes...