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camera rotation
« on: December 16, 2010, 08:31:06 pm »
i've faced some strange behaviour: i rotate a default camera around X axis once, then rotate around Y axis in each iteration. i expected camera direction's Y value remain same, but it doesn't ??? am i missing something?

a simple test case:
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Camera camera = new Camera();

camera.rotateCameraX(0.5f);
System.out.println(camera.getDirection());

for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
camera.rotateCameraY(0.1f);
System.out.println(camera.getDirection());
}

genarates this output:
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(0.0,0.47942555,0.87758255)
(0.09983342,0.47703043,0.87319833)
(0.19866934,0.46986896,0.86008936)
(0.2955202,0.4580127,0.83838665)
(0.3894183,0.44158012,0.80830705)
(0.47942552,0.42073545,0.77015114)
(0.5646425,0.39568692,0.7243002)
(0.64421767,0.36668482,0.6712122)
(0.7173561,0.33401895,0.6114177)
(0.78332686,0.29801565,0.5455141)
(0.84147096,0.2590347,0.4741599)
(0.89120734,0.21746553,0.39806813)
(0.9320391,0.17372355,0.31799892)
(0.96355814,0.12824576,0.23475236)
(0.98544973,0.08148658,0.14916027)
(0.997495,0.033913214,0.062077798)
(0.9995736,-0.013999004,-0.02562493)
(0.99166477,-0.06177134,-0.11307162)
(0.9738477,-0.10892649,-0.19938853)
(0.9463001,-0.15499327,-0.28371322)
(0.90929747,-0.19951141,-0.36520314)
(0.8632094,-0.2420361,-0.4430441)
(0.8084964,-0.28214246,-0.5164583)
(0.7457052,-0.31942976,-0.5847122)
(0.6754632,-0.35352537,-0.6471239)
(0.5984721,-0.38408872,-0.7030697)
(0.5155013,-0.41081437,-0.7519906)
(0.42737985,-0.43343526,-0.7933979)
(0.33498812,-0.45172545,-0.8268779)
(0.23924929,-0.4655021,-0.85209596)
(0.14111997,-0.47462767,-0.86880016)
(0.041580625,-0.47901088,-0.8768236)
(-0.05837419,-0.47860798,-0.8760861)
(-0.15774575,-0.473423,-0.86659503)
(-0.25554118,-0.46350774,-0.84844524)
(-0.35078332,-0.44896123,-0.821818)
(-0.44252056,-0.4299289,-0.7869795)
(-0.52983624,-0.40660077,-0.7442778)
(-0.61185795,-0.37921008,-0.6941395)
(-0.6877662,-0.34803045,-0.63706553)
(-0.7568025,-0.3133734,-0.5736263)
(-0.8182771,-0.2755852,-0.50445545)
(-0.87157583,-0.2350435,-0.43024442)
(-0.91616595,-0.19215329,-0.3517344)
(-0.95160204,-0.14734314,-0.26971)
(-0.9775301,-0.101060815,-0.18499076)
(-0.993691,-0.053768713,-0.09842313)
(-0.9999232,-0.0059393654,-0.010872105)
(-0.99616456,0.041949324,0.07678756)
(-0.9824526,0.08941887,0.16368)
(-0.95892423,0.13599499,0.248937)
(-0.9258147,0.18121228,0.3317067)
(-0.8834546,0.22461894,0.41116208)
(-0.83226746,0.26578128,0.48650926)
(-0.77276444,0.30428803,0.5569954)
(-0.7055403,0.33975443,0.6219163)
(-0.6312666,0.37182614,0.6806231)
(-0.55068547,0.40018266,0.73252946)
(-0.4646021,0.4245407,0.7771165)
(-0.3738766,0.44465685,0.8139389)
(-0.2794154,0.46033013,0.8426287)
(-0.18216243,0.47140402,0.8628993)
(-0.08308933,0.47776774,0.87454796)
(0.016813975,0.47935775,0.87745845)
(0.11654928,0.47615823,0.87160176)
(0.21512006,0.46820104,0.8570363)
(0.3115414,0.45556572,0.83390754)
(0.40484998,0.4383786,0.8024467)
(0.4941134,0.41681132,0.76296806)
(0.5784398,0.3910794,0.71586615)
(0.6569866,0.3614399,0.6616115)
(0.7289691,0.32818907,0.6007462)
(0.7936679,0.29165906,0.5338785)
(0.8504367,0.2522149,0.46167642)
(0.8987081,0.2102507,0.3848614)
(0.938,0.16618574,0.30420104)
(0.9679197,0.120460294,0.2205012)
(0.98816824,0.07353123,0.13459817)
(0.9985433,0.025867486,0.047350273)
(0.9989413,-0.022054719,-0.04037072)
(0.9893582,-0.06975656,-0.12768835)
(0.96988976,-0.116761416,-0.21373016)
(0.9407305,-0.16259962,-0.29763645)
(0.9021718,-0.20681317,-0.37856883)
(0.8545988,-0.24896036,-0.45571876)
(0.798487,-0.28862,-0.5283152)
(0.73439705,-0.32539585,-0.5956329)
(0.6629692,-0.35892045,-0.65699923)
(0.5849171,-0.38885882,-0.71180105)
(0.50102085,-0.4149119,-0.75949085)
(0.41211846,-0.43681926,-0.79959196)
(0.31909832,-0.45436206,-0.8317039)
(0.22288986,-0.46736506,-0.8555057)
(0.124454334,-0.4756983,-0.8707596)
(0.02477531,-0.4792785,-0.87731314)
(-0.075151265,-0.4780699,-0.8751008)
(-0.17432697,-0.4720846,-0.8641448)
(-0.27176085,-0.46138236,-0.84455454)
(-0.3664794,-0.44607013,-0.81652576)
(-0.45753616,-0.42630094,-0.7803385)
(-0.5440214,-0.40227225,-0.73635435)

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Re: camera rotation
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2010, 09:25:40 pm »
Well, the coordinate system isn't fixed. It's just an accumulation of rotations so that the Y that you rotate around in the second step is the default Y rotated by the rotation around X. I.e. the axes are fixed only if you are thinking in camera space but not in world space.

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Re: camera rotation
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2010, 10:20:31 pm »
so what's the correct way of rotating camera around world space's Y axis ?

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Re: camera rotation
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2010, 10:39:50 pm »
Use

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camera.rotateCameraAxis(camera.getYAxis(), 0.1f);

instead. However, if you want to do this on Android, i guess i'll have to add some get?Axis(<SimpleVector>)-methods... ;)

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Re: camera rotation
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2010, 10:52:29 pm »
mm thanks, i tried Camera.getUpVector() but forgot Camera.getYAxis().

no, i wont use this in android, at least for now. i'm making a sky box, and this was for quick testing it. but sooner or later someone will need it ;)