Smooth mixed 1st + 3rd Person Camera Scene Node (for RPG)

[ssexton]

Camera does seem to work with 1.3, with just renaming that method.

[abraham]

cool thanks:) i try this once irrwizzard is on 1.3:)

[bcronje]

cool thanks:) i try this once irrwizzard is on 1.3:)

Abraham, look at my post on http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... &start=240 to compile irrwizard with 1.3, should take you 30secs to sort out.

Beyers

[death_au]

I seem to be getting quite a few problems trying to compile this in 1.3...

- The methods OnPreRender and OnPostRender of ISceneNode have been changed to OnAnimate and OnRegisterSceneNode(). Also, they are now called at different times: OnAnimate is called every frame before anything else, removing the one-frame-lag Irrlicht suffered until now. To make most of your own scene nodes work again, it should be enough to rename OnPreRender() to OnAnimate() and OnPostRender() to OnRegisterSceneNode() in most cases.

I tried renaming those methods, but OnRegisterSceneNode() no longer takes in a time like OnPreRender() did, whereas OnAnimate() does unlike OnPostRender(). Being a complete noob at this, I don't know what does which and if the order should just be reversed or something simple like that...
also...

- changed spelling "frustrum" to "frustum"
-> changed also SViewFrustrum.h to SViewFrustum.h

That's an easy one to fix.... But now the compiler's telling me that CCameraRPGSceneNode is abstract because it doesn't implement the getViewFrustum() abstract method. What has to be done in this method? Just return a reference to the ViewArea?

It would be really helpful to get this camera working on 1.3...

[hybrid]

The description was reverted (or not as exact as one might want it) so just use the methods with the same signature.
The getViewFrustum has to use a const somewhere to match the signature of the interface method.

[bcronje]

@death_au

I compiled this last night with 1.3 making the following changes:

I use the irrLicht 1.3 CCameraSceneNode.h and CCameraSceneNode.cpp, so include them in your project and not the camera supplied ones. Not sure if the original developer of this cam made any changes to it's CCameraSceneNode (which would be silly if he did), but it seems to work fine with irrLicht's.

In CCameraRPGSceneNode.hpp and CCameraRPGSceneNode.cpp

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virtual void OnPostRender( u32 timeMs );

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virtual void OnAnimate( u32 timeMs );

That did it for me.

Beyers

[death_au]

@death_au

I compiled this last night with 1.3 making the following changes:
<snip>
That did it for me.

Beyers

Worked for me too. Thanks a lot. I really appreciate it.

Edit - Actually..... Now the fairy in the example app isn't skinned. Hmmm... I'll look into it a bit more....

[death_au]

Sorry for the double post, but I can't figure this out... Textures appear to be loading properly, but they're not being displayed. They display correctly in the irrlicht 1.1 version, but in the modified 1.3 version I just get a black fairy in the example. I can't really see why. The console says it's loading the textures correctly, and in the irrlicht tutorials textures display correcty.

Odd... The textures display correctly if I use the software renderer, but not with DirectX or OpenGL...

[Frodenius]

i have the same problem but thats probably the bad graphic hardware..

[bcronje]

Sorry for the double post, but I can't figure this out... Textures appear to be loading properly, but they're not being displayed. They display correctly in the irrlicht 1.1 version, but in the modified 1.3 version I just get a black fairy in the example. I can't really see why. The console says it's loading the textures correctly, and in the irrlicht tutorials textures display correcty.

Odd... The textures display correctly if I use the software renderer, but not with DirectX or OpenGL...

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fairy->setMaterialFlag(E_MATERIAL_FLAG::EMF_LIGHTING, false);

Beyers

[death_au]

Ah! Right! My map I'm loading has no lights (at least, there's no dynamic lights, anyway....) So why isn't ambient light lighting my model in that case? Anyway, just putting a few lights around will also do the trick I reckon.

[Darress]

Pls somebody send me a workable version in 1.3 of this camera! I couldn't get it work. (darress@gmail.com). Thx!

[lehanpham]

Can anybody please send me(lehanpham@gmail.com) or update the link of this workable version of this camera and the cam.xml file?

Thanks

[Nebu]

@death_au

I compiled this last night with 1.3 making the following changes:

I use the irrLicht 1.3 CCameraSceneNode.h and CCameraSceneNode.cpp, so include them in your project and not the camera supplied ones. Not sure if the original developer of this cam made any changes to it's CCameraSceneNode (which would be silly if he did), but it seems to work fine with irrLicht's.

In CCameraRPGSceneNode.hpp and CCameraRPGSceneNode.cpp

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virtual void OnPostRender( u32 timeMs );

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virtual void OnAnimate( u32 timeMs );

That did it for me.

Beyers

I made the same changes, the compilation is ok, but when i start my test, none of the keys works, the cam won't move.
Anyone tried the cam with irrlicht 1.3.1?
(i don't have any cam.xml because i wasn't in the archive i've downloaded)

Edit: Ok i found the solution, it was the speeds configuration which were too slow

[~ Dream]

hi people. After reading the replies, this camera seems to be great. If anyone has successfully edited the codes to suit 1.3.1, please share it with us, cheers!