OrbitControls auto rotate stop when interactive?

Question

How to make auto rotate of OrbitControls stop when mouse interactive, and after few second it start like P3D.in does here with their logo (http://p3d.in/)

Doggone

Answer 1

controls.autoRotate = false;

Just start it on init with 'true', then onMouseMove, do something like:

if (controls.AutoRotate)
  controls.autoRotate = false;

Trix

Answer 2

For people googling, if you want to stop the autorotate after the first interaction; you can hook up an event listener on one of the 3 events OrbitControls emits:

// stop autorotate after the first interaction
controls.addEventListener('start', function(){
  controls.autoRotate = false;
});

Or even more advanced, restart the autorotate after the user has ended the last interaction, with a timeout of 1000 milliseconds:

// stop autorotate after the first interaction
controls.addEventListener('start', function(){
  clearTimeout(autorotateTimeout);
  controls.autoRotate = false;
});

// restart autorotate after the last interaction & an idle time has passed
this.controls.addEventListener('end', function(){
  autorotateTimeout = setTimeout(function(){
    controls.autoRotate = true;
  }, 1000);
});

Incantatory