Animating a camera

[inbuninbu]

Hi all,

After working with crystalspace/cel for a while, I've decided to try irrlicht. So far, the API seems a great deal more comprehensible and documented. And much more intuitive.

That being said, I am having problems animating the camera.

I create a cube and camera to start with...

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  ISceneManager* scenemgr = device->getSceneManager();
  ISceneNode* node = scenemgr->addCubeSceneNode ();
  ICameraSceneNode* camera = scenemgr->addCameraSceneNode(0, core::vector3df(0,-40,0), core::vector3df(0,0,0));

If I add a rotation animator to the cube, the cube rotates.

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ISceneNodeAnimator* anim = scenemgr->createRotationAnimator(vector3df(1,0,0));
node->addAnimator(anim);

But if I add it to the camera instead, nothing happens.

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ISceneNodeAnimator* anim = scenemgr->createRotationAnimator(vector3df(1,0,0));
camera->addAnimator(anim);

Any insights?

[hybrid]

The camera looks at the lookAt vector which is not affected by rotation. So you can rotate the complete mesh your camera is connected with without rotating the view, or you can turn the camera without turning the complete mesh. Only if you want to lock the two things you have to add some code.

[inbuninbu]

Thanks!