Moving the camera

Methuselah · Post by **Methuselah** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:12 pm

I am testing some camera movement and I could not get it to work so I just copied the code from the movement tutorial and that did not work either.
Here is the class

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class CameraMovement : public IEventReceiver
{
public:
-------virtual bool OnEvent(SEvent event)
-------{
--------------if (camera != 0 && event.EventType == irr::EET_KEY_INPUT_EVENT&&
---------------------!event.KeyInput.PressedDown)
--------------{
---------------------switch(event.KeyInput.Key)
---------------------{
---------------------case KEY_KEY_W:
---------------------case KEY_KEY_S:
----------------------------{
-----------------------------------core::vector3df v = camera->getPosition();
-----------------------------------v.Y += event.KeyInput.Key == KEY_KEY_W ? 2.0f : -2.0f;
-----------------------------------camera->setPosition(v);
----------------------------}
----------------------------return true;
---------------------}
--------------}
--------------return false;
-------}
};

I used '-' instead indentation
camera is the camera node defined just above the class.
Any ideas?

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:37 pm

Why you just don't use the FPS camera ???

Methuselah · Post by **Methuselah** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:39 pm

Because it is a RTS

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:21 pm

Ahh, OK...

Well, your cam only moves if you release the key(s), because of this statement:

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!event.KeyInput.PressedDown

and then only 2 units every key release...

Also you have to call camera->updateAbsolutePosition() after you moved the cam...

Maybe you should use the boolKeys workaround for this (have a search on the forum for this)...