OrbitControl - restrict panning movement

Question

Is there any way to restrict the panning movement of a camera in scene?

Tried altering the pan method in orbitControls but I'm not really satisfied with the result, I wish there was more convenient/proper way to do it..

if ( scope.object instanceof THREE.PerspectiveCamera ) {
    // perspective
    var position = scope.object.position;

    var offset = position.clone().sub( scope.target );
    var targetDistance = offset.length();

    // half of the fov is center to top of screen
    targetDistance *= Math.tan( ( scope.object.fov / 2 ) * Math.PI / 180.0 );

    // we actually don't use screenWidth, since perspective camera is fixed to screen height
    var dist_l = ( 2 * deltaX * targetDistance / screenHeight );
    var dist_u = ( 2 * deltaY * targetDistance / screenHeight );

    /////// X,Y limit calculation //////
    var limit = 100;
    if( (position.x - dist_l) <= -limit ){
        dist_l = -0.1;
    }else if( (position.x - dist_l)  >= limit){
        dist_l = 0.1;
    }
    if( (position.z - dist_u) <= -limit ){
        dist_u = -0.1;
    }else if( (position.z - dist_u) >= (limit*2.5) ){
        dist_u = 0.1;
    }
    /////// X,Y limit calculation //////

    scope.panLeft( dist_l );
    scope.panUp( dist_u );

} else if ( scope.object instanceof THREE.OrthographicCamera ) {

    // orthographic
    scope.panLeft( deltaX * ( scope.object.right - scope.object.left ) / screenWidth );
    scope.panUp( deltaY * ( scope.object.top - scope.object.bottom ) / screenHeight );

}

Answer 1

I have encountered the same problem. The solution is not to touch the pan() function but to check the limits in the update() function. Locate the line 162:

// move target to panned location
scope.target.add( panOffset );

Do your limit calculations right after this line:

if (scope.target.x > 1000)
    scope.target.setX(1000);
if (scope.target.x < 0)
    scope.target.setX (0);
...

This will clamp the target x-position. It works quite smoothly.