3rd person

[Middy]

Well its more of a math question than anything else.

I have my camera and I want to place an object in front of it. I have a position coord and a view coord (and thus also a direction vector).

The best approach to this, should I place obj at view coords?, link it directly to Camera?.. anyone had any experience witht his?

[Mojomonkey]

Well, if you have your camera's location and view you can determine the location of any point on the line.

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Vector3f loc = camera.getLocation(); loc = loc.add(camera.getView().mult(CHARACTER_DISTANCE)); character.setLocation(loc);

That will keep the character in the camera's view and at a certain distance at all times.