3. Creating and Setting Up a Camera
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A camera is a viewport to the world, without it you actually won't be able to see anything. Cameras in UNIGINE are managed using players. When you add a new player, it creates a camera and specifies controls, masks, postprocess materials for this camera.
In order to set a new player as active one we should use the Game class which is designed as a singleton.
The following code illustrates creation of a PlayerSpectator and setting it as the active game camera.
#include <core/unigine.h>
int init() {
// creating a new PlayerSpectator instance
PlayerSpectator playerSpectator = new PlayerSpectator();
// setting necessary parameters: FOV, ZNear, ZFar, view direction vector and position.
playerSpectator.setFov(90.0f);
playerSpectator.setZNear(0.1f);
playerSpectator.setZFar(10000.0f);
playerSpectator.setViewDirection(vec3(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f));
playerSpectator.setWorldPosition(dvec3(-1.6f, -1.7f, 1.7f));
// setting the player as a default one via the Game singleton instance
engine.game.setPlayer(playerSpectator);
return 1;
}
Additional information:
- For more information on players, see the Players article.
- For more information on players API, see the Players-Related Classes article.
- For more information on the Game class, see the Game class article.
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In our project we are going to use only one PlayerSpectator. To create and initialize it let us write a method called initPlayer.
In the AppWorldLogic.h file, we include the UnigineGame.h library, define a smart pointer for our player and declare our initPlayer method.
// AppWorldLogic.h
/* ... */
#include <UnigineGame.h>
/* ... */
class AppWorldLogic : public Unigine::WorldLogic {
public:
/* .. */
private:
/* .. */
int initPlayer();
/* .. */
// player
Unigine::PlayerSpectatorPtr player;
/* .. */
};
In the AppWorldLogic.cpp file let us implement our initPlayer method and insert it into the AppWorldLogic::init() method.
// AppWorldLogic.cpp
/* .. */
/// method performing initialization of the player
int AppWorldLogic::initPlayer()
{
// creating a new PlayerSpectator instance
player = PlayerSpectator::create();
// setting player's FOV, ZNear, ZFar
player->setFov(90.0f);
player->setZNear(0.1f);
player->setZFar(10000.0f);
// setting player's view direction vector and position
player->setPosition(Math::Vec3(3.0f));
player->setDirection(Math::vec3(-1.0f), Math::vec3(0.0f, 0.0f, -1.0f));
// setting the player as a default one via the Game singleton instance
Game::setPlayer(player);
// reporting progress to the console
Log::warning("\nPlayer initialization OK!\n\n");
return 1;
}
/* .. */
int AppWorldLogic::init()
{
/* .. */
// creating a player
initPlayer();
/* .. */
return 1;
}
/* .. */
Source Files
You can copy the code below and paste it to the corresponding source files of your project:
AppWorldLogic.h
#ifndef __APP_WORLD_LOGIC_H__
#define __APP_WORLD_LOGIC_H__
#include <UnigineLogic.h>
#include <UnigineStreams.h>
#include <UnigineObjects.h>
#include <UnigineGame.h>
using namespace Unigine;
class AppWorldLogic : public WorldLogic {
public:
AppWorldLogic();
virtual ~AppWorldLogic();
virtual int init();
virtual int update();
virtual int postUpdate();
virtual int updatePhysics();
virtual int shutdown();
virtual int save(const StreamPtr &stream);
virtual int restore(const StreamPtr &stream);
private:
PlayerSpectatorPtr player;
// auxiliary functions
int addMeshToScene(const char *file_name, const char *mesh_name, const char *material_name, Math::Vec3 position);
// initialization functions
int initObjects();
int initPlayer();
// scene objects vector
Vector <ObjectMeshDynamicPtr> Objects;
};
#endif // __APP_WORLD_LOGIC_H__
AppWorldLogic.cpp
#include "AppWorldLogic.h"
// World logic, it takes effect only when the world is loaded.
// These methods are called right after corresponding world script's (UnigineScript) methods.
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//---------------------------------------------- AUXILIARY FUNCTIONS AND METHODS ----------------------------------------------
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/// method adding a Dynamic Mesh Object to the scene. If an empty filename is passed the method creates a default box; otherwise, loads a mesh-file with a given name.
int AppWorldLogic::addMeshToScene(const char *file_name, const char *mesh_name, const char *material_name, Math::Vec3 position)
{
MeshPtr mesh = Mesh::create();
ObjectMeshDynamicPtr omd;
if (file_name) { // loading a mesh from a specified file
if (!mesh->load(file_name))
{
Log::error("\nError opening .mesh file!\n");
mesh.clear();
return 0;
}
else omd = ObjectMeshDynamic::create(mesh);
}
else // creating a default box
{
mesh->addBoxSurface("box_surface", Math::vec3(0.5f));
omd = ObjectMeshDynamic::create(mesh);
}
// setting node material, name and position
omd->setMaterial(material_name, "*");
omd->setName(mesh_name);
omd->setWorldPosition(position);
// updating the list of scene objects
Objects.append(omd);
// reporting progress to the console
Log::message("-> Object %s added to the scene.\n", mesh_name);
// clearing the mesh
mesh.clear();
return 1;
}
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//---------------------------------------------- INITIALIZATION METHODS -------------------------------------------------------
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/// method performing initialization of the set of 4 boxes
int AppWorldLogic::initObjects()
{
int index = 0;
for (int x = 0; x < 2; x++)
{
for (int y = 0; y < 2; y++)
{
addMeshToScene(NULL, String::format("my_meshdynamic_%d", index), "mesh_base", Math::Vec3(x, y, 1.0f));
index++;
}
}
// reporting progress to the console
Log::warning("Objects generation OK!\n\n");
return 1;
}
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/// method performing initialization of the player
int AppWorldLogic::initPlayer()
{
// creating a new PlayerSpectator instance
player = PlayerSpectator::create();
// setting player's FOV, ZNear, ZFar
player->setFov(90.0f);
player->setZNear(0.1f);
player->setZFar(10000.0f);
// setting player's view direction vector and position
player->setPosition(Math::Vec3(3.0f));
player->setDirection(Math::vec3(-1.0f), Math::vec3(0.0f, 0.0f, -1.0f));
// setting the player as a default one via the Game singleton instance
Game::setPlayer(player);
// reporting progress to the console
Log::warning("\nPlayer initialization OK!\n\n");
return 1;
}
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
AppWorldLogic::AppWorldLogic() {
}
AppWorldLogic::~AppWorldLogic() {
}
int AppWorldLogic::init() {
// Write here code to be called on world initialization: initialize resources for your world scene during the world start.
// creating objects
initObjects();
// creating a player
initPlayer();
return 1;
}
// start of the main loop
int AppWorldLogic::update() {
// Write here code to be called before updating each render frame: specify all graphics-related functions you want to be called every frame while your application executes.
return 1;
}
int AppWorldLogic::postUpdate() {
// The engine calls this function before rendering each render frame: correct behavior after the state of the node has been updated.
return 1;
}
int AppWorldLogic::updatePhysics() {
// Write here code to be called before updating each physics frame: control physics in your application and put non-rendering calculations.
// The engine calls updatePhysics() with the fixed rate (60 times per second by default) regardless of the FPS value.
// WARNING: do not create, delete or change transformations of nodes here, because rendering is already in progress.
return 1;
}
// end of the main loop
int AppWorldLogic::shutdown() {
// Write here code to be called on world shutdown: delete resources that were created during world script execution to avoid memory leaks.
// deleting all created nodes
for (int i = 0; i < Objects.size(); i++)
{
// removing current node from the scene
Objects[i]->deleteLater();
}
// updating the list of scene objects
Objects.clear();
// clearing the player pointer
player->deleteLater();
return 1;
}
int AppWorldLogic::save(const StreamPtr &stream) {
// Write here code to be called when the world is saving its state (i.e. state_save is called): save custom user data to a file.
UNIGINE_UNUSED(stream);
return 1;
}
int AppWorldLogic::restore(const StreamPtr &stream) {
// Write here code to be called when the world is restoring its state (i.e. state_restore is called): restore custom user data to a file here.
UNIGINE_UNUSED(stream);
return 1;
}