http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWkpdtFZoBE The code is on his site.
2009/6/14 Brent Lewis <[email protected]>: > > I assume you guys are talking about head tracking for that cool 3D effect > like (jump to about 2:30) : > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw > > I was pretty intrigued by that whole thing. I'm curious though - doesn't it > require making a skewed frustum? I wouldn't have guessed the engine allowed > that much control over the rendering. > > I hope it works well for you. Good luck! > >> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:44:51 -0400 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Implementing head tracking >> >> To answer your specific questions: >> >> 1) We didn't find a place to just drop in our tracking device and have >> it called every frame. We had to modify quite a few methods in >> in_main.cpp to tell the engine to either use our tracker (if enabled) >> or fall back to the mouse. Not a lot of code per se, just lots of >> modification to exiting conditional statements. >> >> 2) When you position the player, you are moving the feet of the >> player's model. You will have to figure out the transformation from >> the feet to the eyes (based on the model's eye height) to figure out >> how to put the "camera" where the tracker is. Also, changing the >> player's orientation doesn't change the view orientation. We found >> that we had to change the player's orientation (angles) as well as the >> engine's **ViewAngles** to get the behavior we need. >> >> Steve >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Jan Frederick Eick<[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi there! >> > >> > For an experiment we are trying to implement headtracking. I'm a bit >> > lost in the source right now. I read the tutorial about implementing a >> > 3rd person view. >> > This intent raises some questions. >> > >> > 1) the new "input device" (the tracking system) - is there a method >> > which gets called every frame in which we could fetch the data of the >> > tracking device? >> > >> > 2) where is the difference in "changing the position of the camera" and >> > "changing the position of the player"? >> > >> > I hope you guys get what I'm trying to express ;) >> > >> > Greets >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> > please visit: >> > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> > >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
