GuiObjectView issue

#1 It was a feature I needed as I added also an automatic rotation in the control to show the object and it may be weird to reset the rotation when you go from one object to another.

#2 How do you rotate an object around in the object view automatically?

#3 There is an attribute 'rotate' (from memory) that you can set to 1 if you need the object to rotate around its Z axis.

#4 the cameraZRot property setting seems to have no bearing. I must be missing something obvious.

#5 I must be missing something because I don't have a rotate property in my guiobjectview. Is there a newer version of the downloadable source than what I have?

2 things I am stuck with,

1. I uncommented the animation code to make the objects run the ambient animation sequence but it played very choppy, not constant and smooth.

2. I can't figure out how to clear the view so that no shape is shown.

Any pointers? Thank you.

Robert

#6 The only thing I dont like and the real reason I dont use the control is that it uses a different resManager file. Is there no way to use the original manager to call this? I may be paranoid but changing the resManager to accept 1 var instead of 2, wouldnt that effect the other files that havent been edited that are calling resManager and are still using 2 vars?

#7 There should be no pb as i just overload the function. So if the function is called with two parameters, then it will not use mine :)

#8 Oh, Robert I dont think the control renders in OpenGL mode, I may be mistaken but I think the TS Controls are the only ones that do ( Like in -show ). This may be why its choppy.

#9 CameraZRot seems to rotate around a strange axis. Or else the objects I am pickig up all have their origins in wierd places. When I rotate the object in increments it rotates out of view.

I wonder if the strange axis is a world orientation instead of an object orientation?

Researching.

#10 Hi,
Robert, you can simply rotate an object automatically around, in the object view, with small changes in the engine code.

If you are using the GuiObjectView Tutorial under the page:

perso.wanadoo.fr/hysteria/docs/guiCtrls.htm

all you need to do is to add the following lines to the guiObjectView.h and guiObjectView.cc :

* New Lines in guiObjectView.h:

First we should add a variable for rotation. So add the line
bool rotatingObj;
to the end of the protected variables in guiObjectView.h

**New Lines in guiObjectView.cc:

add the following line to the end of the constructor (that is GuiObjectView::GuiObjectView() : GuiTSCtrl() )
rotatingObj = true;


and add the following lines at the
beginning of the function " bool GuiObjectView::processCameraQuery( CameraQuery* query ) "

//rotate Object
if(rotatingObj)
mCameraRot.z += 0.01 ;

Thus, you start with a rotating object in GuiObjectView and you can stop the rotation by setting rotatingObj to false ( but you need to add a set method since we have set the rotatingObj variable as protected.)

If I haven't misunderstand what you are looking for this should solve the rotation problem.