Small feature request

[Anteater]

It would be nice if it was possible to change the no vertical movement attribute of a FPS cam after it's created.

[hybrid]

Bitplane is planning for a new way of camera movement, so called camera animators. This will introduce much more flexibility to all cameras, so let's hope he gets this done soon

[Nodtveidt]

That would be great; the current camera scheme is pretty static.

[Midnight]

lol don't bet on it bitplane has his hands full and mine.

give him a month or two and irrlicht will be spit shined though.

[bitplane]

I can manage, but if someone else wants to make a start on it I'm cool with that too
It's a nice simple addition, nothing more than a mixture of event reciever and animator, split out from the inbuilt cameras so that a Maya camera is just a camera scene node with a Maya controller, and an FPS cam just has an FPS controller.

[Nodtveidt]

The current FPS camera is very limited (can't adjust the speed after it's set, for example). If I had the experience, I'd fix it myself but I don't so sorry, no dice here.

[Anteater]

If I had the experience, I'd fix it myself but I don't so sorry, no dice here.

Same here. If I could do it, I'd would have posted it in the code snippets forum by now.

[greenya]

The current FPS camera is very limited (can't adjust the speed after it's set, for example). If I had the experience, I'd fix it myself but I don't so sorry, no dice here.

Yes. You right.
You have to ways ( as i had ):
- wait for irrlicht version that will has more flexible camera;
- try some kind of "cheat"

In my project i needed to changed camera's speed either. Because when i changing time speed -- it affects camera's speed too. So i decided to recreate a camera every time i need to changed camera's speed. All the values of the current camera should be copied to new one -- make it twin. It is looks like this:

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........... // here i setting required t .................

Game.Timer->setSpeed( t );

ICameraSceneNode* curcam = Game.Scene->getActiveCamera();
ICameraSceneNode* newcam = GameFPSCamera( vector3df( -500.0f, 0.0f, -200.0f ), 50.0f, cam_movespeed/(t/(0.001f*60.0f)) );
Game.Scene->setActiveCamera( curcam );

newcam->setInputReceiverEnabled( cam_inputreceive );

newcam->setFarValue( curcam->getFarValue() );
newcam->setPosition( curcam->getPosition() );
newcam->setRotation( curcam->getRotation() );
newcam->setUpVector( curcam->getUpVector() );
newcam->setTarget( curcam->getTarget() );

Game.Scene->getActiveCamera()->remove();
Game.Scene->setActiveCamera( newcam );

................ // from now new camera used .........

If you realy need -- you can downlaod the sources/binaries and see the result in my Solar Model project to see it "in action". After increasing/descreasing time speed changing of camera look for user very transparent.

[Phant0m51]

Back near SVN Rev 448 there was a change to the FPS Camera that allowed to get/set movespeed. If I get some time here in the next few hours I'll find the additions to the Scene Manager and FPS Camera and post them here.

[Phant0m51]

In your CCameraFPSSceneNode.h add these lines:

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virtual void setMoveSpeed(const f32 speed);
virtual f32 getMoveSpeed();

In your CCameraFPSSceneNode.CPP

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void CCameraFPSSceneNode::setMoveSpeed(const f32 speed)
{
MoveSpeed = speed;
}

f32 CCameraFPSSceneNode::getMoveSpeed()
{
return MoveSpeed;
}

In your ICameraSceneNode.h

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virtual void setMoveSpeed(const f32 speed) { };
virtual f32 getMoveSpeed()
{
return 0.0f;
}

That will give you the option to get and set the movespeed of the camera. You shouldn't have a problem getting/setting vertical movement, rotation, or anything else you need.