Character setDirection [with video!]

I've been playing around with the Character class for just about the entire day now, and so far I have a moving character which reacts very well with my scene. The next step is rotating the character along the Y axis (spinning).

I'm doing that with the following code
if(mInputHandler->isKeyDown( OIS::KC_I) )
{
chester->addMovement( Character::DR_Forward );
}

if(mInputHandler->isKeyDown( OIS::KC_K ) )
{
chester->addMovement( Character::DR_Backward );
}

if(mInputHandler->isKeyDown( OIS::KC_L ) )
{
chester->addMovement( Character::DR_StepLeft );
}

if(mInputHandler->isKeyDown( OIS::KC_J ) )
{
chester->addMovement( Character::DR_StepRight );
}

OIS::MouseState ms = mInputHandler->getMouseState();
int relX = ms.X.rel;
if( relX != 0 )
{
Quaternion q;
q.FromAngleAxis( -Radian( relX * 0.15 * deltaTime ), chester->getGlobalOrientation() * Vector3::UNIT_Y );
q = q * chester->getGlobalOrientation();
chester->setDirection( q );
chester->addMovement( Character::DR_None );
}

The character only wants to spin while I'm moving.

The video can be viewed by going here: http://deadcold.smallchangestudios.net/movie.wmv

Is there any way around this?

Interesting and nice movie (nice to see Cake fairing up after this time).

Anyway, the NxCharacter itself never actually rotates, it just moves in a directional vector, but the node does. I'm thinking that the code that deals with the node rotation isn't working, or you have a strange setup to make the character not rotate it.

Also before you do anything drastic. Take out this line and see what happens:-

chester->addMovement( Character::DR_None );

dead link on the video

Try saving it rather then streaming it, I just tried it again, and it worked for me.

Actually, I tried to spin without that DR_None code, I figured it would update if I through it in, but it didn't. I could try rotating the node though, I just don't want it to do one of those 180 turns back to the old position when I start moving again.

I'm using this code in my 3rd person chasing camera system.
// Rotate the character as mouse moves
const OIS::MouseState ms = mouse->getMouseState();
mMainNode->yaw(Radian(Degree(-ms.X.rel * 0.15).valueRadians()));
mCharacter->setDirection(mMainNode->getOrientation());

Where mMainNode is the Character's node.

Hope this helps.

I'm using this code in my 3rd person chasing camera system.
// Rotate the character as mouse moves
const OIS::MouseState ms = mouse->getMouseState();
mMainNode->yaw(Radian(Degree(-ms.X.rel * 0.15).valueRadians()));
mCharacter->setDirection(mMainNode->getOrientation());

Where mMainNode is the Character's node.

Hope this helps.

Thanks! This actually worked ^.^

chester->getNode()->yaw( -Radian( Degree( relX * 0.15 ).valueRadians() ) );
chester->setDirection( chester->getNode()->getOrientation() );