Prevent flatting of 3D Terrain Satellite map styles when pitching.

[Gnative]

I updated my Satellite map style and I am using the 3D Terrain layer to display this. Now when I pitch to 0 (or viewing directly downward) the map does the flatting animation thing where the 3D Terrain layer is flattened.. I didn't set the map to do this and would prefer it wouldn't do this as, to me, it looks a little buggy and i like the original 3D perspective from above. Is this a new feature and if so can we have a setting to keep it so that the 3D perspective is kept ?

Thank you

Strangely the vector maps still have this 3D perspective on 0 pitch, its only applied to the satellite map style as you can see in this video.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/abfe5ff0-cbcf-4653-93fe-12d8088d4f13

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8404c7e8-9515-4d32-bfc3-f0f26a0ab183

[astojilj]

Could you please check if your style has the root-level property "camera"->"camera-projection" set to "perspective"? Flattening is related to "orthographic" "camera-projection" behavior. Standard style uses "orthographic".

E.g. style's json should not have "orthographic" here but "perspective".

[Gnative]

Hi @astojilj thanks for the reply.

No it looks like the root-level camera property is not set.. This is a fairly old base style that I have updated. I am not able to see where you would set this with in the style either. Sorry if this is obvious, it is just not to me at the moment.

style.json

[astojilj]

@Gnative

Your style now imports Standard Satellite style, and inherits the layers and settings from there, including camera-projection. The style.json you shared includes this:

"imports": [
    {
        "id": "basemap",
        "url": "mapbox://styles/mapbox/standard-satellite",
        "config": {"show3dObjects": false, "theme": "default"}
    }
],

So, you'd need to override this - add this e.g. just before "imports", the code should look like:

"camera": {
    "camera-projection": "orthographic"
},
"imports": [
    {
        "id": "basemap",
        "url": "mapbox://styles/mapbox/standard-satellite",
        "config": {"show3dObjects": false, "theme": "default"}
    }
],

[Gnative]

OK thank you so much. I don't see where to do this in the Style Studio. I guess I need to do this at app level ?

[astojilj]

Could you please try editing the style.json in a text editor (to add the aforementioned camera projection) and then importing the JSON file back into Studio?

[Gnative]

@astojilj Yes this works.. the camera-projection: perspective property does as I expect now. I also checked with the orthographic value and this brought back the flattening effect.

It must be when I updated a layer in the original style that this base default properties were then applied.

Is there a way to apply this to my original style as the style ID is coded into my IOS and Android apps ?