Woah! Why do people buy TrackIR if it's that simple? garry On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Harry Jeffery < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
