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[pipmak-users] Direction control leaving/entering cubic rooms

[NigeC <nig...@gm...>]

How do i control the direction the camera faces as you enter a cubic room?

Just for a simple project i've built a 3D maze

the first room starts with the camera facing north the exit is east, when i
exit the camera faces the exit i just went through, rather than
east/straight ahead


Theres a lot of expermenting at the moment, i normally dio static 2D so you
only have one view to add content to, i thought the maze would be a useful
way to get my head round camera control and the best places to place them..
great fun though!
can't wait until the next update

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Re: Direction control leaving/entering cubic rooms

[Andrea V. <and...@gm...>]

NigeC <nigec999 <at> gmail.com> writes:

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> 
> How do i control the direction the camera faces as you enter a cubic room?
> 

Hello NigeC,
Welcome to Pipmak!!

I think you could use the method

pipmak.setviewdirection(azimuth,elevation)

And if you need to get the current direction there are also

az,el=pipmak.getviewdirection()

(See at page 22 of Pipmak manual of version 0.2.6)

I hope this can be helpful for you.

If you produce some example that you think it could be useful to others,
consider the Wiki!!

Andrea

Re: [pipmak-users] Direction control leaving/entering cubic rooms

[NigeC <nig...@gm...>]

Thanks for the quick reply :)

I will give that a try

As soon as I have something useful to show i'll do something on the Wiki..
if you ever need someone to proof read docs etc , English is my first
language

thanks
Nige

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Re: Direction control leaving/entering cubic rooms

[Christian W. <cwa...@gm...>]

NigeC wrote:
> the first room starts with the camera facing north the exit is east,  
> when i
> exit the camera faces the exit i just went through, rather than
> east/straight ahead

If I'm understanding you correctly, something must be wrong here.  
Pipmak should maintain the viewing direction when switching from  
panorama to panorama, so when you face east to go through the door,  
you should still be facing east in the next room. Could it be that  
your cube faces are in the wrong order?

If you need to change the direction (e.g. when you go from a panorama  
to a slide, then return to the panorama), there's the  
pipmak.setviewdirection() function, as Andrea has pointed out.

   -Christian

Re: [pipmak-users] Direction control leaving/entering cubic rooms

[NigeC <nig...@gm...>]

Christian Walther wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> If I'm understanding you correctly, something must be wrong here.  
> Pipmak should maintain the viewing direction when switching from  
> panorama to panorama, so when you face east to go through the door,  
> you should still be facing east in the next room. Could it be that  
> your cube faces are in the wrong order?
> 
I made the cubes with Btyce going by the tutorial (0,90,180, etc), moving
the camera east for the first 3 areas, the next moved the camera north ... 
each time the camera face the direction the player came from
not to worry, I'm doing something a lot more interesting than a maze ;)

nige

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