How do I create a third Person View using DXUTCamera in DX10?
- by David
I am creating a 3d flying game and using DXUTCamera for my view.
I can get the camera to take on the characters position, But I would like to view my character in the 3rd person.
Here is my code for first person view:
//Put the camera on the object.
D3DXVECTOR3 viewerPos;
D3DXVECTOR3 lookAtThis;
D3DXVECTOR3 up ( 5.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f );
D3DXVECTOR3 newUp;
D3DXMATRIX matView;
//Set the viewer's position to the position of the thing.
viewerPos.x = character->x; viewerPos.y = character->y;
viewerPos.z = character->z;
// Create a new vector for the direction for the viewer to look
character->setUpWorldMatrix();
D3DXVECTOR3 newDir, lookAtPoint;
D3DXVec3TransformCoord(&newDir, &character->initVecDir,
&character->matAllRotations);
// set lookatpoint
D3DXVec3Normalize(&lookAtPoint, &newDir);
lookAtPoint.x += viewerPos.x;
lookAtPoint.y += viewerPos.y;
lookAtPoint.z += viewerPos.z;
g_Camera.SetViewParams(&viewerPos, &lookAtPoint);
So does anyone have an ideas how I can move the camera to the third person view? preferably timed so there is a smooth action in the camera movement. (I'm hoping I can just edit this code instead of bringing in another camera class)
