AJ Christensen

Whoa wait what - how? How do you render geometry to an image and import it as an image in the network view? Is this a live connection, or has a static image been rendered out and is just imported to the network view?

Leaving some breadcrumbs here for future 3d mouse users ... this network seems to do the trick. I'm no CHOPs expert, so I still need to figure out where I'm creating redundancy that makes things lag and my wrangle VEX code is a little dodgy. But I now have a full 6 degree-of-freedom continuous transformation from local coordinates flight simulator-style camera navigation.

Hat tip to this tutorial which helped me a lot with managing transforms: https://vimeo.com/307156961 [vimeo.com]

FWIW I did just come up with a really dumb way to answer my first question: I use multiple devicetransform nodes to accumulate values, and then pass them through, rename them, and merge the channels I need.