Need help with Rotation

Hi,

I've tried to make a third-person-camera, they movement works, but the roation of the player is ... difficult.
I want to rotate a scenenode instead of the camera(which is the child of the scenenode).

I have this code for a FPC:
Camera.Yaw(e.state.X.rel * -ROTATE)
Camera.Pitch(e.state.Y.rel * -ROTATE)

but if i change it to this...

CameraBaseNode.Yaw(e.state.X.rel * -ROTATE)
CameraBaseNode.Pitch(e.state.Y.rel * -ROTATE)

... the camera gets crooked.
Any idea to fix this?

It should work as badly in both cases.
Your camera is not smooth.
Consider having destination/source orientation , destination/source position and do a piece of smooth transition every frame until you reach destination.

Hi koirat,

The FPC works correctly. It is the FPC used in the examples.
Nevertheless could you please explain your suggestion?

http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Cr ... era_system

Setup:
cameraNode = sceneMgr.RootSceneNode.CreateChildSceneNode();
cameraYawNode = cameraNode.CreateChildSceneNode();
cameraPitchNode = cameraYawNode.CreateChildSceneNode();
cameraPitchNode.AttachObject(camera);

Mouse event handler:
cameraYawNode.Yaw(arg.state.X.rel * -ROTATE);
cameraPitchNode.Pitch(arg.state.Y.rel * -ROTATE);

basically, what you are doing is linear movement/rotation. If you want your camera to move faster you increase ROTATE. In the end your camera smallest rotation == ROTATE. If it's to big you will encounter jerkines.
What you can do is to get arg.state.Y/X.rel and add it to some variable may it be "globalRotInfluenceX". Each passing time <-- your choice it may be frame. you make it closer to zero. Also each frame you can do (rot=globalRotInfluenceX * ROTATE) with ROTATE that is small, that will be your current rotation. Also you can set maximum/minimum camera rotation. It's a little different than interpolation that i was writing about, but this is how you can do it without a lot of work.

Thank you koirat and smiley80,

Now it works!!