camera

Melan · Post by **Melan** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:21 pm

hey, how can i make a camera like that in the video:
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=ryuBstQOyGk
you know what i mean? in front of the camera theres a person and the camera follows the person. if the person rotate to left the camera follows.
sure its a fps camera but i tried it like this:

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camera = smgr->addCameraSceneNodeFPS(0, 100.0f, 400.0f);
camera->setTarget(nodeMario->getPosition());

well, the camera shows now to to mario person. but if i rotate around with the camera the mario dont follow and so on like in the video.
Can someone explain me this?
thx[/code]

B@z · Post by **B@z** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:30 pm

uhm, search the forums... called tps camera, or third person camera...
there are a tons of it

Melan · Post by **Melan** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:33 pm

ok thx you
and how is the camera called used in mmorpgs like that:
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=fJgfgXQgp ... re=related
is that also a tps?
thx

kingdutch · Post by **kingdutch** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:35 pm

Looks like it

Melan · Post by **Melan** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:49 pm

so a mmorpg camera is a tps camera?
and i tried a tps camera and it works gut, but i addet the colliosion and now the character flying up ( y is getting higher and higher) but i dont do anything. here is my code:
http://rafb.net/p/9I4fuA91.html
thx

dlangdev · Post by **dlangdev** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:12 pm

Look for rogerborg's third person camera code. That version is the cleanest version out there. I suggest you send him a PM about that code.

I have a version of my own, but that was before I saw a clean implementation. In other words, you don't want to see my version, it's ugly.

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:26 pm

I honestly don't remember posting a usable 3rd person camera. I can't find it with a search.

dlangdev · Post by **dlangdev** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:41 pm

I thought it was you, Rogerborg. Maybe it was someone else.

The code inherits from SceneNode, not from FPSSceneNode, tho.

Inheriting from SceneNode was the right way, my implementation was not correct as it inherited from FPSSceneNode, so I dragged all the code into the include directory. Yucck!

Anyway, I saw the video and it doesn't look right. Why? the avatar was not placed at the center. Rotation was off, what should've happened was the avatar takes camera pos, then the camera shifts back and then goes a step up.