CameraSceneNodeMaya can't be repositioned

[comicsteam]

this question has been asked by sunzhuo before. we cannot initialize MAYA camera position.....
is it possible to add one more parameter in addCameraSceneNodeMaya()
or provide serializeAttributes() function,
so that we can change the camera position??

[DtD]

This is by design. The built-in FPS and Maya cameras are intended mostly for prototyping. If you need to expand beyong the default code, your best bet is to start blank with a ICameraSceneNode. You can proably scrape some code out of Irrlicht's source to help get started with something similar to the maya camera.

~DtD

[geckoman]

Writing your own cam is probably the best thing, as you can add and change functions as you like. I did this for my time-based RTS-Camera. The only thing you could be faced is some math, but that should be no problem.

[vitek]

If the built-in camera does what you need, you shouldn't have to write your own. I'm not certain that I understand the problem that you're having. Are you complaining that you can't do something like this?

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const core::vector3df pos (100.f, 10.f, 1000.f);
scene::ICameraSceneNode* cam = smgr->addCameraSceneNodeMaya(..., pos);

If so, why not just write this code instead?

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scene::ICameraSceneNode* cam = smgr->addCameraSceneNodeMaya(...);

const core::vector3df pos (100.f, 10.f, 1000.f);
cam->setPosition(pos);

// call this if you need the camera position to be up to date before the first render
cam->updateAbsolutePosition();

Travis

[vitek]

Also, I see no reason that you can't use serializeAttributes() on a camera. It seems to work just fine here.

Travis