Maintain camera heading on zoom

[rutsky]

By default panning Earth in 3D has nice property that no matter how I pan tiles on Earth surface will always be oriented "vertically":

When zoom to mouse is used (either using mouse wheel, or by holding right mouse button), Earth axis is being tilted (the further away from screen center zooming is done, the stronger axis tilt):

If I disable zooming to mouse position (by hardcoding in Cesium source code) or if I zoom exactly to screen center this issue is not reproduced.

This is very inconvenient when you navigate over Earth using panning and zooming and at some point see that tiles on the map are rotated.

Also mentioned here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/cesium-dev/Kv_dSET4Bjs/Z0XJp1JIBQAJ

[hpinkos]

Thanks @rutsky, this is something that has come up a few times on the forum as well.
Until we address this, you can add a preRender event to always keep the camera heading such that north is up. Here is an example:

var viewer = new Cesium.Viewer('cesiumContainer');
var camera = viewer.scene.camera;
viewer.scene.preRender.addEventListener(function() {
    camera.setView({
        orientation: {
            heading: 0,
            pitch: camera.pitch,
            roll: camera.roll
        }
    });
});

[rutsky]

@hpinkos thanks for the workaround!

[pjcozzi]

CC #2816

[wallw-teal]

I am attempting a fix for this, but I'm a little stuck.

My attempted solution was to grab the heading, pitch, and roll from the camera at Source/Scene/ScreenSpaceCameraController.js:488 and then apply them back via camera.setView(...) at the end of the function. This works great and keeps the heading at 0 (or 360), except that if you zoom in far enough, something outside of that function modifies the camera heading to a non-zero value (haven't checked pitch and roll yet). I can consistently reproduce this using the viewer and only the mouse wheel to zoom. Still trying to track down what is causing that.

[wallw-teal]

My employer is working on a corporate CLA. Should be good to go on Monday and I'll open the PR.

[pjcozzi]

@wallw-bits thanks for working on the fix, looking forward to it!

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[pjcozzi]

Thanks again for the bug report, @rutsky! This was fixed in #5603.