[SOLVED] set up camera following a tool in the scene

[Yannie]

Hello all,

I’m thinking of attaching a camera to a tool that interact to other objects in the scene, using <OglViewport screenPosition=”0 850″ screenSize=”300 300″ cameraRigid=”…” drawCamera=”1″ />. The problem is I don’t know what to put in cameraRigid, the camera is at the tip of the tool, so it has a displacement from the center of the tool. If I just use the .position parameter of the mechanical state, the result is way off…, any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Best,
Yannie

[Hugo]

Dear @yannie,

the OglViewport can be driven by a simulated point indeed. There is two options for this:

• either you give a cameraRigid=”RigidPoint.position” ../> if you have access to a rigid point (3 x,y,z and a quaternion)
• or you can give separately a position (Vec3) and an orientation which is a quaternion

Hope this helps.

Hugo

[Yannie]

Thanks Hugo, I looked into the code, it seems I have to write things in code, I can’t achieve it by just writing the scene file.

[Hugo]

alright, keep us updated and do not hesitate to share it! It could be interesting to others!
Cheers

Hugo

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