CEL Mouselook - 1st Person

[bernardofd]

Hello;

It's been a while I've trying to implement mouselook in CEL. I took the code made by muffinpeddler (http://community.crystalspace3d.org/forum/index.php/topic,335.0.html) with some changes. It worked, but I didn't like the movement of the screen when I moved the mouse. I mean, I don't know how to explain it right but, it seems that the camera rotation it's accelerated. I want that the camera rotates with constant velocity, and only move to an certain angle correspondent at the offset of the mouse pointer to the center (as I did in my code without CEL).

I mean, muffinpeddler's code's rotation is based in the velocity of the mouse movement in a frame space. I want that my rotation is based by how much the mouse moved in a frame space, so, what a want is how to get the offset through celData structure...

Is this possible?

Greetings;

[allpowerful32]

Of course its possible.  without more information, however, I can't comment on the dificulty of the coding and or changes.

[Dr_Ompaa]

Hm ... constant velocity could maybe be achieved like

Fetch Some StringID ...

Code:

id_paramvalue = pl->FetchStringID ("cel.parameter.value");

"camera_rotate" is bound to "mousex_centered"

Code:

pcinput->Bind ("mousex_centered", "camera_rotate");

If the mouse moves away from the center the offset is a float you can get as shown below
(The code comes into the SendMessage Function of your Behaviour Type of course)

Code:

  else if (msg_id == id_pccommandinput_camera_rotate)
  {
    if(params->GetParameter(id_paramvalue)->value.f > 0)
    {
      pccamera->MoveYaw(0.0175f);
    }
    else if(params->GetParameter(id_paramvalue)->value.f < 0)
    {
      pccamera->MoveYaw(-0.0175f);
    }
  }

So the idea is that if the offset of the mouse to the center is positive we rotate into one direction with constant velocity and the other way round.

Hope this helps somehow ... or is at least understandable

to see the code in action you can get the oOC code

Code:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/ocmod checkout ooc

our solution to this problem can be found in src/ooc.cpp and src/behaviour/be_player.cpp

[muffinpeddler]

I don't believe the MoveYaw function on the default camera works...That's the problem I was having, as it would be much easier to use these functions, but the yaw seems to be constrained to the camera mode.

[Dr_Ompaa]

well at least in Freelook mode the Yaw of the camera is independent from the character

Code:

void CAFreeLook::DoCameraCalculations (const csTicks elapsedTicks,
  const csVector3& actor_pos, const csVector3& actor_eye,
  const float actor_yrot)
{
  parent->SetTarget (actor_eye);
  parent->EnsureCameraDistance ();
  parent->CalculatePositionFromYawPitchRoll ();
}

By commenting out some line you can unlink Camera Yaw from the player in other modes as well

Code:

void CAThirdPerson::DoCameraCalculations (const csTicks elapsedTicks,
  const csVector3& actor_pos, const csVector3& actor_eye,
  const float actor_yrot)
{
  parent->SetTarget (actor_eye);
  // Comment out line below
  // parent->SetYaw (actor_yrot);
  parent->CalculatePositionFromYawPitchRoll ();
}

so this parent->SetYaw (actor_yrot); connects the camera with the player mesh why MoveYaw doesn't work on all modes

(all things referring to cel/plugins/propclass/defcam/defcam.cpp)