Pitch,Yaw and roll
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| Hi, I am working on a spacesim but have some problems. When i roll mi ship 90 pitch becomes yaw. Is there any way to fix this? Here is a demo + source to show what i mean: http://www.ferretdesign.be/spacesim/SpaceSim.zip Thx, Ferret |
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| No, it's a phenomenon called "gimbal lock". You can get around it by using quaternions or by limiting the pitch of your ship so it never quite hits 90 degrees in pitch. |
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| Thats bad, i never used quaternions. Any examples on how to use quaternions for this? |
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| In Blitz3D you can get around this by using TurnEntity. In MiniB3D you can't, as TurnEntity doesn't work properly. I am working on this now however and hope to get it working in the next version. |
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| Did you ever get this working? |
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| You can use Warner's version to get around this problem. Cheers Charlie |
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| Yes, excellent. I will work on converting them to c++ |
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| I've been away from Minib3d for a while, where do we get Warner's version from? |
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| I have put the copy I downloaded in Dropbox: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3397800/sidesign.zip Cheers Rob |
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| Thanks. I'll give that a try. |
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| If you only need the steering you can check out the minib3d version of my spiral galaxy where I used a special "Turncam" function to get around this problem. http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=2777 check the last post there |
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