Problem with Moving Child Camera...

[MynithiX]

Hey guys.
I want to make a helicopter which is flying in a Circle around a rock, and a FPS-Camera inside this helicopter.
This works so far, but the problem is that the FPS-Camera rotates itself.

There is a point at the rock, which turns itself. The Camera and the Helicopter are childs from this point.
I hope you guys understand what I mean, because I don't want to confrontate you with my yet untidy code

Thx, Mynithix

By the way, basic C++ problem because I'm a noob.
I have a main.cpp with the game.h(eader). In the header there is a void menu(){} but I've got a second file menu.cpp where void menu(){isFilled();} So, what can I do to use the menu.cpp?

[NemoStein]

Couldn't you make the helicopter rotate, instead of the node which the two (helicopter and camera) are children?
Camera and helicopter will follow the node, but only the helicopter will spin...

[CuteAlien]

You mean - you want to walk around inside the helicopter while it is flying? Pretty tricky and interesting problem :-) And sorry, I haven't tried doing that yet, but could be you have to write your own camera-animator code for that.

About the c++ problem - you can't have 2 implementations of the same function - that is simply impossible. What you can have is a declaration and an implementation. Basically your header has to look like that instead:

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extern void menu();
 

That tells the compiler then that there is a menu function which will be implemented somewhere else.
Then again you usually do not that have many simple c-style functions when programming c++. It's more common to put stuff into classes.

[MynithiX]

Hm, currently I just need to be able to 'turn my head'. Is this as tricky as walking around?

[CuteAlien]

I think you shouldn't use a FPS camera in that case. FPS camera is just for walking around. You can use Maya-camera maybe. Or just a normal camera and then add your own animator to it for rotating around (in short that should update your camera position to the helicopter, and then you have to control the target values of the camera based on input).