Game Development Community

Arguments to camera.setTransform

by Marcin Zygmunt · in Torque Game Engine · 05/11/2005 (1:46 pm) · 5 replies

Does this function take matrix or two vectors as arguments?
NextNext Thread
PrevPrevious Thread
More from Torque Game Engine


Associate Kyle Carter
#1
05/12/2005 (6:16 pm)
It takes a position and and an angle/axis rotation, ie, "x y z x y z r" where the latter xyz is the axis to rotate about and the r is the amount by which to rotate.

Torque Owner Marcin Zygmunt
#2
05/13/2005 (4:02 am)
Yes, but I've got some problems with this function. I used the function camera.setTransform(...) to set something like "0 0 160 1 0 0 1", and the camera orientation changed, when I did the same once more. It's very strange.

Torque Owner Luis Anton
#3
05/13/2005 (4:52 am)
But that must be done in 'flying mode', right? I tried that this morning in that mode, and it worked perfectly.

Torque 3D Owner Stephen Zepp
#4
05/13/2005 (11:07 am)
The camera is tied to your player, and while you may change the transform with setTransform, 1 tick (32 milliseconds) later, the camera is repositioned to where it "should" be.

As Luis said, you need to untie your camera from the player prior to being able to manually adjust it's position. Check out the flying mode that Luis mentions for pointers about this concept.

Torque Owner Marcin Zygmunt
#5
05/13/2005 (1:48 pm)
I removed player from the mission, I've only got a camera as ControlObject.