Storing camera position

[SuB]

I'm working on a project where I have 2 camera's, one is a static and the other one is the fps camera.

I managed to be able to switch bewteen the cameras but everytime I go back to the fps camera it returns to it's starting position.

I've been messing around with the get and set position() but I keep losing the camera's new position.

How do you do this? Where should I initialise my camera's? Is there a way to store the camera position and reaply it later?

[Gav]

couldnt you use the current position of the player character to set the new position of the FPS camera
im not sure but it sounds right ?

[SuB]

yeah I could, but right now, the player is just a camera floating around, you're suggesting I attach a node to the fps camera so I could just redirect the camera to the player-node's position?

It is a good workaround, i've been trying to find how the the addCameraSceneNodeFPS is build in the source because in it's construct they don't give it a position, they just add cameraspeed and such.

if you could give it a start position I could make that one variable and everytime the camera gets loaded I could make the start position my previous position , but I'll try your way first, if it works, I can move on :d

[SuB]

damm, can't figure it out

driving me crazy

[etcaptor]

Use for static camera
AddCameraSceneNode instead addCameraSceneNodeMaya .

[Gav]

yeah I could, but right now, the player is just a camera floating around, you're suggesting I attach a node to the fps camera so I could just redirect the camera to the player-node's position?

It is a good workaround, i've been trying to find how the the addCameraSceneNodeFPS is build in the source because in it's construct they don't give it a position, they just add cameraspeed and such.

if you could give it a start position I could make that one variable and everytime the camera gets loaded I could make the start position my previous position , but I'll try your way first, if it works, I can move on :d

err yeh thats what i meant hehehe i think you have a better idea of it than I do

[mm765]

i probably misunderstood what you want to do but why not just use camera->getPosition() and camera->setPosition() ?
maybe you should save/set the camera's target, too but ...

[SuB]

How can you make the program wait for an input?

What I want to do is stay in the static camera until a button is clicked, then the fps camera can be used again

[bal]

Use the event receiver...

[Oz]

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... php?t=3651

This is a similar topic and I posted some of my code on the setPosition(getPosition) thing. Its not perfect but may help.
(camera switching I mean)

[SuB]

Tnx everyobody, and allot of tnx go to Oz

seemed that the only thing I was missing was setActiveCamera and a little reorganising

I can roam around the level in the fps camera, when I hit a button the camera freezes and I have cursor control in my menus, I hit the button again and the menu's go away and I can continue roaming

SuB is very happy, tnx guys

[Oz]

Great! Im glad it was a help. The reason I did all that was just so I could toggle wireframe rendering, im coding another quadtree
Im a sucker for punishment, you could say