Absolute pitchAngle

[Daniel]

Hey!

I have a camera as a child of a moving/rolling/pitching object, and I need to get the absolute pitchangle of the camera.
Can that be done?

Cheers!

[Daniel]

This works as I want, it is for a camera that shots the reflection image. The camera is child of a dummycube. The cube moves and turns, the camera uses pitch.

refCamCube.Position := camCube.position;
  refCamCube.turnangle := camCube.turnangle;
  refCam.pitchangle := cam.pitchangle * -1;
  refCamCube.Position.y := camCube.position.y * -1;

But in my intended program, the main camera is on a boat that rolls/pitches, so I need to use absolute values.

I tried like this, but it fails sometimes. CC is cameracube.

refCamCube.AbsolutePosition := cc.absolutePosition;
 refcamCube.Position.Y := cc.absolutePosition.Y * -1;
 refcamCube.direction.x:= cc.absolutedirection.x;
 refcamCube.direction.z:= cc.absolutedirection.z;
 refCam1.Direction.y := GLSceneViewer1.Camera.AbsoluteDirection.y;
 refCam1.direction.y := refCam1.direction.y * -1

Any idea what is wrong? Should this work?

[Jerome.D (BeanzMaster)]

Hi Daniel take the object you pitch/roll of your boat and set the inverse to you refCamCube like you did

[Daniel]

Yes, I think it should work, but something is not correct with the way I take the absolutedirections.
At some angles it fails.
I will test a bit more.

Cheers!