Best Way To Move Camera By Position

[MackeyK24]

What is the BEST way to move a camera by position... When using one of the built-in cameras ... you get good smooth movement... If I try to manually move the camera around using camera.position I don't get the desired effect. I can move the camera around using code like this (delta movements from input):

public updateCameraPosition(camera: BABYLON.FreeCamera, horizontal: number, vertical: number, speed: number): void {
            if (camera != null) {
                var local = camera._computeLocalCameraSpeed() * speed;
                var cameraTransform:BABYLON.Matrix = BABYLON.Matrix.RotationYawPitchRoll(camera.rotation.y, camera.rotation.x, 0);
                var deltaTransform:BABYLON.Vector3 = BABYLON.Vector3.TransformCoordinates(new BABYLON.Vector3(horizontal * local, 0, vertical * local), cameraTransform);
                camera.cameraDirection = camera.cameraDirection.add(deltaTransform);
            }
        }

 

but when I just try set camera position... its funny (I know that vague)... But it would hard to show with all the "Test Project Code" I am using to learn how to move a camera around "Unity-Style"

Just wondering of simply setting camera.position (on a universal camera) should give me free range movement like a unity camera.

 

[GameMonetize]

Hey

I guess it is related to internia. By simply setting camera.position there is no inertia while using cameraDirection you will leverage the inertia engine.

 

Does it make sense?

[MackeyK24]

23 hours ago, Deltakosh said:

Hey

I guess it is related to internia. By simply setting camera.position there is no inertia while using cameraDirection you will leverage the inertia engine.

 

Does it make sense?

Not really... Still a newbie

[GameMonetize]

TLDR: Use cameraDirection

[MackeyK24]

1 hour ago, Deltakosh said:

TLDR: Use cameraDirection

I will try that... I have been having betting luck just sticking the camera in an empty mesh and moving the empty mesh around like they would move a camera transform around in unity... But I will try the cameraDirection method so not sooo kludgy using the empty mesh to move camera

 

[jps0611]

@Deltakosh how do you address the issue where you rotate the camera rotation? cameraDirection seems to be agnostic of the current active cameras rotation...how would you update the cameraDirection while also taking into account the cameras current rotation? For instance...let's say I rotate the camera 45 degrees....then I want to update the cameraDirection to move forward 100 units IN that direction. Any helpers in BABYLON to help calculate this?

[Guest]

Well you can consider that your default direction is (0, 0, 1). so if you want to move forward you will need to add (0, 0, 100). And to take current camera rotation in account, you can simply transform this vector by BABYLON.Matrix.Invert(camera.getViewMatrix())