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Hello, I am trying to make an object move toward the camera. I was having some problems so i commented out the normalize call and tried to see if i could just make the object translate to the camera, but I couldn't do it.  This is the code I am using.


                                Object3D obj = data.getObject();
Camera cam = visualWorld.getCamera();
SimpleVector desti = new SimpleVector(cam.getPosition());
SimpleVector objCenter = obj.getTransformedCenter();
SimpleVector dest = desti.calcSub(objCenter);

System.out.println(objCenter.x + " " + desti.x + " " + objCenter.y + " " + desti.y);
//dest=dest.normalize();
// dest.scalarMul(0.05f);
obj.translate(dest);
objCenter = obj.getTransformedCenter();
System.out.println(objCenter.x + " " + desti.x + " " + objCenter.y + " " + desti.y);



Output:
973.6122 921.0 -13.489336 -21.0
2551.978 921.0 -483.8615 -21.0

Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks.

*edit it looks like it has something to do with me setting a parent object.  When I remove the parent object it translates as it should. Do you know why this is? Could it be related to scaling on the parent?

This should work as long as the parent has no rotation.

If it is, try to add this:


dest.rotate(parent.getRotationMatrix().invert3x3());


Thanks that worked.