Controlling the camera

[genzm]

Hy, I'm trying to write my own camera controllers. (more as an exercise than really with a purpose).
Because I know there is cameraFPS node available, but just to try things out.

So suppose I've written code that caluculates a position vector and a rotation vector.
How would I set these for the IcameraSceneNode?

This is how I did it:

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    check_keyboard_input(delta);
    check_mouse_input(delta);
 
    core::vector3df v = camera->getPosition();  v += dvector;         // dvector is difference with previous position
    camera->setPosition(v);
    camera->setRotation((*rotation)*180/core::PI);                    // rotation is in radials, so needs convert to degrees
    v += ((*rotation)* 180)/core::PI;
    camera->setTarget(v);                                             // target point is a random point in the direction of the rotation
 

So I would assume that this gives me somewhat decent results, but the camera flickers all the time from directions and rotations. I really can't figure out why this doesn't work. Is this the right way to set rotation of a camera?

Thanks

[hendu]

Don't set both target and rotation, changing one changes the other by default IIRC.