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scott wrote:
>> Roughly what I was dreaming of doing was to marry the type of drawn
>> map info in Google Maps with the camera freedom of Google Earth, but
>> without any of the sophisticated resolution adjustment in either
>> presentation. All I was really envisioning was to control the movement
>> of a camera around say a box with a diagram on it and maybe a coupla
>> other boxes to mark buildings. But rotating and zooming the object
>> would be a little underwhelming without being able to dolly the camera
>> too. Because dollying a character through a game scene seemed such a
>> common thing to do I was a little surprised at my initial findings.
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> If you write something that uses a 3D API like OpenGL or DirectX, you
> basically can set the camera in exactly the same way as you would in
> POV. So in your code you just need to calculate the camera position and
> "look at" vector, then pass that on to the API before drawing your scene.
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> Creating some code to take keyboard/mouse input and generate the camera
> vectors is relatively straightforward if you're comfortable working with
> 3D vectors and geometry. For example, you could use the arrow keys to
> move left/right and forward/back relative to the camera look_at
> direction, and the mouse x/y inputs to set the look_at vector.
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>
That's encouraging, thanks. I think I'm going to give it a shot.
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