Position of Mesh

[freetoplay]

When I use the Asset Manager to import my meshes, it seems to be positioned at a weird angle vs when I import my meshes via append (see screenshots).

The first screenshot shows what happens when I use the Asset Manager, how do I make it look like the 2nd screenshot?

[brianzinn]

If you are using createDefaultCameraOrLight(), like your "camera question", you are using an ArcRotateCamera.
http://doc.babylonjs.com/babylon101/cameras#arc-rotate-camera

Check out the alpha + beta + radius in the image in the docs.  Here is your duck from another angle:
http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#TT2BK1#3
edit: The difference you are experience may be due to one method creating a new scene and the other appending to existing scene.  You would need to share the full code.

[freetoplay]

Thanks again! I have been trying to play with those values, but so far, I have not been able to get it fully facing the front. I am using the math and code from the previous "camera" thread:

 

http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#TT2BK1#4

 

Do you have any additional pointers?

[brianzinn]

Great that you found which mesh had a good bounding box!  You will need to track which mesh (ie: .meshes[3]) has the bounding box and then perhaps a beta + alpha in radians.  I am not aware of mesh metadata that exposes preferred viewing angles:
http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#TT2BK1#5

If you are building something to generically load different meshes, here is some of the staging data that remix3D (I think) is using for their meshes to provide a consistent experience:

[freetoplay]

I realized that the BabylonJS viewer can do this pretty easily.

 

https://codepen.io/anon/pen/zJqYMW

With the exception of the duck (which seems to have its own set position), the above code seems to do exactly what I want it to do, given a mesh that doesn't have its own position set. However, it seems like Viewer doesn't support any frameworks yet. Do you think that the Viewer is a better alternative than writing my own viewer, even if it means waiting for framework support?

[brianzinn]

It works on straight up HTML, but it's open source as well.  Which framework are you using?

[freetoplay]

I tried using it with Vue, but there appears to be some conflicts because it uses its own custom DOM element.

[brianzinn]

There is some work on loaders in this project, if you check the issues: https://github.com/Beg-in/vue-babylonjs/