Camera lookat

[Lupo]

Hi,

For those Math gifted/talented people in the forum (you know who you are )

Its a way to have a zgelibrary function to mimic/clone the GLU Camera LookAt ?

Something like Lookat( x, y, z) and then change the rotations of the camera to correctly look at that position/model ?

Thanks in advance,
Lupo

PS Bring the Quaternions!!!

[Lupo]

Maybe its better to think in some kind of camera component/behaviour?
Like:
- Follow that model.
- First Person
- Overtheshoulder
- Panoramic

[Kjell]

Hi Lupo,

You said it .. bring on the quaternions, you really need them for a gluLookAt type of function. However, when your game has a constant up axis, the math is actually very easy.

1st / 3rd person cameras I personally see as a scripting job instead of a generic component, as every game requires a ( slightly ) different implementation. A camera component on the other hand is one of the first things I requested about two years ago when first starting out with ZGE

*Although with the recently added OnBeginRenderPass it has become very easy to implement your own camera management system.

K

[Lupo]

Thanks Kjell !

Any chance of the code snippet for constant up axis version?

[Kjell]

Here you go ~

K

[y offs et]

Now that code has got to go in tips and tricks.

[diki]

most definitely :)