Navigating between multiple viewpoints
3D space is wonderful to travel freely, but we also want specific cameras for users and ways to navigate between them. The following figure depicts the same scene from three different viewpoints with a single spotlight on the left-hand side of the image along the negative x axis pointing towards the origin (0, 0, 0). The image on the left shows the initial default camera, the image in the middle shows the view from the left along the x axis from the <Viewpoint> node named vp1, and the image on the right is from the <Viewpoint> node labeled vp2 at a 45-degree angle between the positive x axis and the positive z axis:
Engage thrusters
In the following code, we have three <Viewpoint> nodes. These cameras are in ...
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