Irrlicht Engine

Ok, I've realized a couple things I was doing wrong, but it still isn't working correctly. I was confused about how to create the view/projection matricies. This is what I'm doing now:


rot_matrix.setRotationDegrees(target->getRotation());
rot_matrix.transformVect(offset);

view_matrix ...

I'm trying to implement the third-person camera described in a microsoft C# tutorial here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb203909%28v=xnagamestudio.31%29.aspx

I think I'm close, but it still isn't quite working. The bulk of the code is in my Camera update method:


rot_matrix ...

That's kind of how I felt. Ogre was great, but for the kind of thing I'm trying to do Irrlicht seems to be a perfect fit.

I started with Ogre. I actually thought it was pretty nice and enjoyable to work with, but then I got stuck trying to import animated meshes from blender and decided to try Irrlicht. I couldn't believe how much easier it was to work with. In about an hour, I had accomplished more than I had in weeks ...