Can plugins display the 3D viewport?

[Sentross]

Hello Devforum members,

Well there really isn’t too much to say, my question is with a plugin that is a docked widget, can i display the 3d viewport inside it? Or not possible?

Thanks in advance

[mkargus]

By “3d viewport” you mean ViewportFrame correct?

[Sentross]

No, I mean the entire 3D viewport, the area within ROBLOX studio where everything in your 3D scene can be viewed.

[OverEngineeredCode]

I took a long look through the plugin documentation, and there is nothing which allows the 3D viewport to be rendered in a plugin GUI.

This is a very specific use case, and not many plugins would likely require it, but if you want you can submit a feature request, although it isn’t guarunteed it will be accepted.

[nooneisback]

You could practically use this for your project, but I doubt it’ll be efficient:

"Dual Render" Scope System

Disclaimer: THIS IS NOT SUITABLE FOR A PRODUCTION GAME ENVIRONMENT. It is an interesting tech demo prototype, but is absolutely an abuse of ViewportFrames. Note that it slows exponentially- the more objects, the slower it gets. I’ve optimized plenty, but it is not enough. Before we begin: What is a Dual Render scope system? It is a system that allows the game to make the scope a separate render, so the player doesn’t lose peripheral vision. It’s a bit hard to describe, so I’d rather just sh…

[XAXA]

@SentroRetorak

can i display the 3d viewport inside it? Or not possible?

You can’t do this without cloning everything in workspace and shoving it inside a ViewportFrame (and this obviously has some caveats, such as particles and beams not rendering).

[colbert2677 (ImagineerColbert)]

That’s not what OP is asking for. Viewports exist, ViewportFrames are frames that contain viewports (as seen from a Camera).

@OP
There is no method for this and I’m not sure of your use case either. Can you not just use the CurrentCamera as-is?

[nooneisback]

Dual-Render is just a module that clones the entire Workspace to display it in a ViewportFrame. Set the frame’s CurrentCamera to the Workspace’s CurrentCamera and you practically have what he asked for.

[Sentross]

Yeah, I know. Thats why I am asking, it seems very impractical and unusable all together to clone and put everything in a view port frame. I appreciate the help though, I’ll find another solution.

[Sentross]

Interesting. My last reply said I would try and find another solution, yet here I am a year later trying to Google this same question to find out I have already made a post on this before…

Has anyone figured out how to do something like this?

[sjr04 (uep)]

Well your question was already answered, although the caveats being particles and beams not rendering, and terrain can’t be put in there.

[Sentross]

Viewport frames are not really a realistic option in this case. Since this is plugin development, not game development, I would need a way to use the 3D viewport.

[3rdhoan123 (Future Noob)]

As of the current standpoint, I dont believe this is possible unless you want to deal with hacky viewportframes.