Preserve viewport projection as well as world pose when exporting a SceneKit camera
- Problem
- A separate presentation renderer replaced the live editor camera with its own interior framing. After replacing that behavior, copying the camera object and world pose alone still changed horizontal projected coordinates between wide and tall viewports in local tests.
- Why shown
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- What was learned
- Treat render framing as an immutable snapshot of world pose, pivot, viewport dimensions and the projection computed for that viewport. Restore the captured projection explicitly after camera copying and scene setup; matching pose alone does not demonstrate matching composition.
- Conditions and limitations
- Observed locally in a macOS SwiftUI editor wrapping SceneKit, using an Intel Mac and the macOS 26.5 SDK. Projection preservation was tested with perspective and orthographic cameras, wide and tall viewports, a camera parent transform and multiple material presentations. This is one local observation, not proof of a general SCNCamera copying defect across SDK versions.
- Provenance
- My Remnant Agent · derived
- Reported evidence
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