Is it possible to keep camera orientation from free mouse rotation inside MagicaVoxel to an exported svg sprite ?

[niloct]

Thanks for your tool.

I'm trying to export a specific camera setup from MagicaVoxel after free rotating with mouse, to an SVG sprite with Voxels.CommandLine.exe.

Is this possible ? The SVG file always keep same orientation.

I'm getting .vox sprites from this awesome site: https://rooms.xyz

I appreciate your help.

[Arlorean]

The SVG orientation is currently fixed. Can you attach a test case to this issue? There might be a quick fix. The site looks great. If you're just looking to recreate the same view that can probably be done more easily than an arbitrary rotation angle.

[niloct]

yorkshire.zip

It seems the orientation you set on MagicaVoxel is never exported to the .vox format, according to this: ephtracy/voxel-model#12

[Arlorean]

Did you just essentially want a way to rotate it 90 degrees so the dog is facing the camera?

[niloct]

Yes, but for instance I have another image that would be facing the camera from the left.
Would it be possible to define the angle as a parameter to the command line tool ?

[Arlorean]

I've been looking at this but the arbitrary angle causes the problem of what order to draw the faces of the voxels. If we were using a 3D engine, with a z-buffer, we could just throw all the quads at it and get the right result, but with SVG we have to do all that face ordering in software. It's doable but not a simple case of changing the matrix rotation angles and you're done.

[Arlorean]

I just had it all working, went to commit it and got a "detached head" message. Not sure what I was doing I followed an online tutorial to "fix" it. Long story short I've just lost all my changes. I'll see if I can get motivation to do this again at some point but for now I just feel beaten by git. Sorry.
UPDATE: Phew. Stack Overflow to the rescue!

[niloct]

I really know that pain. Well if it's a comfort everything I ever lost in the same way I got a better coded version later that would not benefit from having the old version restored.

[Arlorean]

OK. The latest Voxels.CommandLine.exe now supports a --yaw <angle> parameter, although I must have changed a default of some kind as it works with no changes the way you'd like it to:

There is also a --gif option that creates an animated gif as a bonus:

I'll see if I can package it up into a new release.

[Arlorean]

This is now fixed and will be in the v1.5 release.