Hi Michael, Havig both modes sounds a good idea. In that case, "FirstPersonManipulator" seems fine for me. Just be sure to: - allow the user to set which vector is considered to be "up" - allow the user to set the minimum angle between "dir" and "up" (or else you got rounding errors that cause ugly artifacts). Based on experiments, I personnaly used 0.008 (radians; as you can see in the source code I told about), but it may depend on how your camera is set.
Sukender PVLE - Lightweight cross-platform game engine - http://pvle.sourceforge.net/ Le Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:08:45 +0100, Simon Loic <simon1l...@gmail.com> a écrit: > Glad to see that this manipulator generates interest. > Concerning the name, the manipulator is designed as explained in the header > : > > """ > The camera control is done via keyboard arrows concerning the position and > via mouse draging concerning the orientation. > There are two modes : the horizontal and the free. In the free one the > translation direction is exactly aligned with the view direction and thus > can span the whole set of direction. In the other, the moving direction is > constrained to remain horizontal. Note : horizontal mode is not implemented > yet!! > """ > Taking into account what you said, Sukender, we should call it > FirstPesonManipulator and call the two modes GENERAL and DOOMLIKE. > What do you think about this? > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Michael Platings > <mplati...@pixelpower.com>wrote: > >> AFAIK you play as a human in Descent ;) >> >> Essentially it's to give the effect of walking/running, so how about >> "WalkManipulator"? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: osg-users-boun...@lists.openscenegraph.org [mailto: >> osg-users-boun...@lists.openscenegraph.org] On Behalf Of Sukender >> Sent: 19 March 2009 17:57 >> To: OpenSceneGraph Users >> Subject: Re: [osg-users] DoomLike manipulator >> >> Hi all, >> >> IMHO, "FirstPersonManipulator" should suit any "first person cameras" ; and >> a "doom-like" one is only a subset of a FPS manipulator. Think about >> "Descent" game, where you could go in any direction in space (no gravity to >> say where is the "up" direction). Doom-like has a fixed "up" vector that may >> not suit any use of a FPS view. I personally chose "Human*" prefix for >> Doom-like view (Hence "HumanManipulator" or "HumanViewManipulator"). >> >> Sukender >> PVLE - Lightweight cross-platform game engine - >> http://pvle.sourceforge.net/ >> >> >> Le Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:37:25 +0100, Robert Osfield < >> robert.osfi...@gmail.com> a écrit: >> >> > HI Loic, >> > >> > The manipulator certainly isn't pointless - as the fact that others >> > have written something similar shows it's a common need, so getting >> > something like it checked into the core OSG makes sense. I would >> > suggest finding a more generic name rather than DoomLikeManipulator. >> > Perhaps FirstPersonManipulator? I'm open to suggestions. >> > >> > Robert. >> > >> > 2009/3/19 Simon Loic <simon1l...@gmail.com> >> > >> >> Thanks guys, >> >> indeed the wasd manipulator does pretty much the same things as mine. >> >> Although I'm not interested in changing my manipulator. I was just >> >> pointing out that this kind of manipulators are missing in the osg >> >> core. Basically if the wasd manipulator had been integrated in osgGA, >> >> I wouldn't have coded an equivalent from scratch. >> >> So I was expecting some motivated comments on the manipulator I >> >> propose, before to go through osg-submissions. Anyway if for any >> >> reason you think that this is pointless, I'll just forget about it. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 2009/3/19 David Spilling <david.spill...@gmail.com> >> >> >> >>> Hi, >> >>> >> >>> FYI, there was a posting of a (presumably similar) WASD type >> >>> manipulater by Viggo Løvli back in August 08 - seach the archives >> >>> for "How to write a camera manipulator..." >> >>> >> >>> David >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> osg-users mailing list >> >>> osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org >> >>> http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegrap >> >>> h.org >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Loïc Simon >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> osg-users mailing list >> >> osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org >> >> http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph >> >> .org >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> osg-users mailing list >> osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org >> http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. >> For more information please visit >> http://www.messagelabs.com/email______________________________________________________________________ >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and >> intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they >> are addressed. 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