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GL.Lookat mathematics

Posted Thursday, 5 July, 2012 - 19:18 by lid6j86 in

could I please get a little help? I'm trying to figure out the math for GL.Lookat() function.

I'm having problems figuring out 'moving forward' from an arbitrary position and angle.

my preferred input is a gamepad (right now i'm using XNA for the gamepad).

I have the following variables:

UpVector (0,1,0)

CameraYaw
CameraCoordinates
CameraPitch

for CameraYaw i was inputting as degrees. Originally I was thinking it was something like using Sin and Cos of CameraYaw to figure out the correct viewing angle but it wasn't working correctly. Hope that makes sense :-/

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Re: GL.Lookat mathematics

Posted Thursday, 5 July, 2012 - 19:46 by lid6j86

If I'm not mistaken i should turn the degrees to radians, then for x take sin(radian y rotation), z take cos(result radian y rotation) y take sin(radian x rotation), correct?

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Re: GL.Lookat mathematics

Posted Thursday, 5 July, 2012 - 21:11 by lid6j86

got it, going to post it up for others if they want something simple