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correct camera rotation when walk around of sphere


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I think that a FreeCamera, when moving, has a cameraDirection property what a Vector3 oriented in the way the camera moves.

So if you add camera.position and camera.cameraDirection, you'll get a result that could be used as camera target. Thus you will look in the way you walk.

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@jerome thanks for reply maybe i ask wrong question

i correct camera position now

and i have gravity for any planet 

i think i need re calculate " camera target position "

my next question : any way to define a jump or automatic  walk for camera with collision and gravity?

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ok

just an idea (pseudo code, all these following are vector3 substraction or addition or cross product) :

var axisCam = camera.position - sphere.position;  // axis cam-sphere center, so a sphere radius vector 

var axisMove = CopyFrom(camera.cameraDirection);              // axis of the cam movement, copy the last defined value. You could get Axis.X before it's defined (before the first camera move) to give an initial view direction, or any direction that you would choose by default. Just don't set it to zero.

var cross1 = Cross(axisCam, axisMove);              // a first orthogonal vector to the radius and the movement, so cross1 if tangent to the sphere

var cross2 = Cross(axisCam, cross1);                   // this one is orthogonal to the radius, tangent to the sphere and colinear to the movement... if not right try instead Cross(cross1, axisCam)

var target = camera.position + cross2;

 

this should work

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Ain't it great when Jerome talks Math-smack like that?  Friggin' Orthogonoids... ya gotta love 'em!

Jerome, of course, taking a professor-like approach, where as I... would hack lookAt().  :)  (ie. Make the bottom of the camera constantly lookAt the planet core.)

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  • 2 weeks later...

Well. The question was actually directed at you, sir :P

Were you able to somehow reset the camera rotation/translation when getting to the other side of the sphere?

I simplyfied your example a bit, just to make it easier for myself: http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#RW25F#7

I'm not even sure that I understand the issue, really. Is it something like the below demonstration?:

FrgxUls.png

I'm leaning mostly toward the first figure, as you quickly get the issue of the camera limitation/boundary downward/Y axis. As well as the camera just being 'off'.

This has the potential to make some fun "border-less" game maps, if you adjust the camera accordingly, or make big enough spheres.

 

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