ICameraSceneNodeFPS points at origin?

[beebs]

Hiya,

I'm trying to recreate the camera orientation after loading a saved game. The camera rotation is serialised as a rotation vector returned from ICameraSceneNode::getRotation().

After reloading a save game and calling ICameraSceneNode::setRotation(), the camera unexpectedly points towards the origin instead being rotated to the orientation that was saved..

In this instance, the camera is guaranteed to be a child of the root node - so I assumed setRotation() would work.

Does anyone know why this happens?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Cheers!

[CuteAlien]

Rotation and target are only identical if you have set bindTargetAndRotation(true). Otherwise you have to save the target.
Also camera are serializable - so you can maybe just use the Irrlicht functionality for saving/loading (aka serializeAttributes/deserializeAttributes).

[beebs]

Thanks for that - the save information is actually being deserialised from a database and sent across the network, otherwise I'd use the built in functionality.

I've used bindTargetAndRotation(), but it doesn't seem to have any effect..

cpp Code: Select all

 
/* Create the camera. */
_camera = getScene()->addCameraSceneNodeFPS(0, 50, 0.1f);
 
/* Set the camera position. */
_camera->bindTargetAndRotation(true);
_camera->setPosition(irr::core::vector3df(zoneLoadPacket.PositionX, zoneLoadPacket.PositionY, zoneLoadPacket.PositionZ));
_camera->setRotation(irr::core::vector3df(zoneLoadPacket.RotationX, zoneLoadPacket.RotationY, zoneLoadPacket.RotationZ));
 

Strange - I'll have another look into this.

[gerdb]

are the values

zoneLoadPacket.RotationX,
zoneLoadPacket.RotationY,
zoneLoadPacket.RotationZ

correct?