HUD, textoverlay with Java3D and wiered stuff...

[Conzar]

Once you have your rotated vector so that it is aligned with the direction the camera is facing you add it to your camera/player position and you are done.

If you do this, then you will still get the camera jitter problem when you move about 3km away from the origin.  

To get away from the camera jitter, we must leave the camera at the origin and move everything around the camera.  This solution is a hack to an obvious bug.

j3d.org has something in their FAQ about camera jitter but I don't think they address the problem we are talking about or maybe I'm not understanding their solution.
http://www.j3d.org/faq/speed.html#jitter

[Conzar]

Ok, so here is the current problem.  In the picture above, we have the world rotating around our camera (which is always facing in the -z direction).  No matter how far the world gets away from the camera, it will always rotate around the camera in circles.

When we update the worlds position, (right now) we normalize the translation back to the origin.  We need to figure out how to normalize it to the direction of the camera is pointing I think

[Conzar]

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//variables Transform3D tmpTrans, positionHolder, posTrans, rotatorX, rotatorY, rotatorZ; Vector3f position, vec; // method for calculating translation component for world      tmpTrans.set(position);       positionHolder.mul(tmpTrans);       positionHolder.mul(rotatorX);       positionHolder.mul(rotatorY);       positionHolder.mul(rotatorZ);       positionHolder.get(vec);       vec.x = -vec.x;       vec.y = -vec.y;       posTrans.set(vec);       trans.set(posTrans);

Ok, the above code works; well sort-of.  After moving around a bit I get a wierd behavior (such as moving in the up instead of moving forward).

Well, I gotta go see Bad Boys II (at my friends request) so I'll try to figure out this wierd behavior tomorrow.

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[endolf]

Hi
 Unless i'm missing something, if you store a transform 3d (or a 4x4 float/double matrix) as your current location, and update just like you were originally doing, then you get the transform for your top world transformgroup, you can just take the inverse of the location matrix.

This is how I implemented a camera in native GL.

HTH

Endolf

[Conzar]

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tmpTrans.set(position);       positionHolder.mul(tmpTrans);       positionHolder.mul(rotatorX);       positionHolder.mul(rotatorY);       positionHolder.mul(rotatorZ);                                                                                     //This takes the translation found in the above code      //And inverts it to apply to world translation & rotation                                                                                 posTrans.set(positionHolder);       posTrans.invert();       wT.set(posTrans);

Ok, so this finally works.  Thanks endolf for your help.  Your method was soo much easier then mine.  A big note, with the above method you only need to update 1 TransformGroup to move the scene (instead of 4 like I posted before) since the rotation & translation information are calculated w/ 1 Transform3D.  

Well, if anyone wants the full source, I can code up a Class that handles this behavior.

[endolf]

Ok, so this finally works.  Thanks endolf for your help.

No problem, just glad it's all working.

Cheers

Endolf