Create custom FPS Camera

MrSnowflake · Post by **MrSnowflake** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:58 pm

Hi guys,

I need a FPS style camera for our school project. I tried implementing my own, but then I didn't get any mouse input. How can I get mouse and keyboard input to my camera?

And how to best implement jumping and crouching?

zeno60 · Post by **zeno60** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 7:23 pm

Have you tried searching the forums? Also some of your own code would be good to share to better see where you are going wrong, I doubt many people are in the business of doing school homework for others.

Here are some search results to get you started:

For jumping:
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... 0AND%20FPS

For your input problem you may want to check that you are setting up the eventreceiver correctly.

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... ntreceiver

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:11 pm

Try checking the source for the built-in FPS camera, that might help..

MrSnowflake · Post by **MrSnowflake** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 4:57 pm

zeno60 wrote:Have you tried searching the forums? Also some of your own code would be good to share to better see where you are going wrong, I doubt many people are in the business of doing school homework for others.

I searched a lot, but most camera thread are about making rts style camera's.

LosNir · Post by **LosNir** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:50 pm

Use the built in FPS camera camera and use it with MastEventReceiver.
Solve the non responding camera inputs by this: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... ntreceiver

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:03 pm

I think he wants to create his own camera..

LosNir · Post by **LosNir** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:00 pm

I think he just had my problem, wanted to have built in FPS Cam actions but with external EventReceiver

MrSnowflake · Post by **MrSnowflake** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:30 pm

MasterGod wrote:I think he wants to create his own camera..

I do not _want_ to write my own camera. But I believe this is the best/only way to do this, as I'm integrating the Wii Remote and thus I need to be able to have control on how the camera reacts on mouse movement. And I want to be able to lean to a side, using the angel from the nunchuk.

Apparently the event receiver of the camera is working. But, as I copied the code from the addCameraSceneNodeFPS() from CSceneManager, the OnAnimate doesn't ge called. Maybe I should move all positioning stuff from this onAnimate() to my event handler. But I wanted to stay as close to the original camera.

[edit]I fixed by manually calling camera->OnAnimate(). So now I have my camera working.[/edit]