Thread: What are you working on/studying?

But that's just it, what do you really think happens when you say 'you are the one rotating'. You are rotating your view vector and changing your position, and unless you perform the transformations manually you probably pass
1) the position of the camera
2) the view vector (in worldspace)
3) the up vector

and then it uses that to rotate the world around you before drawing! The glu library supplies gluLookAt and I know I"ve seen similar in d3d code.

EDIT: ohh I think I somewhat might have mis understood what you were saying, the total effect is different right? I believe I was confusing what you said with something different.

I know about those 3D vector/matrix stuff. Although it looks like the map is rotating around you, its actually just a different viewpoint matrix. But I don't use any of that.

Yea, in my game, you ALWAYS point up, even when you turn and move. That way, the map and everything else seems to rotates around you.

Still, how would it be confusing to a player?

Perspective, I just think it would be confusing to the player (at first) because "conventionally" the player rotates and the map doesn't, so that's what everyone is used to. So people might get (slightly) confused for the first 10 minutes or so.

Originally posted by confuted
Perspective, I just think it would be confusing to the player (at first) because "conventionally" the player rotates and the map doesn't, so that's what everyone is used to. So people might get (slightly) confused for the first 10 minutes or so.

Hu? What about sidescrollers? I mean it's a translation, not a rotation, but we have a static object (the player, his ship or whatever) and a world that moves around it.

Originally posted by confuted
Perspective, I just think it would be confusing to the player (at first) because "conventionally" the player rotates and the map doesn't, so that's what everyone is used to. So people might get (slightly) confused for the first 10 minutes or so.

I dunno - it seems like I see more games with the way speedy's doing it. Meh, I think it may take a couple seconds of getting used to, but wouldn't be that bad.

Anyways, I'm currently trying to desparately finish my thesis project on time. It involves porting a 4 level communications protocol from the vendor-written code to somehting that will function with our RTUs on an RCM2100 micro. Also, I've had to port uC/OS II, but that's completed. [/elitist loser]

I'm porting code so I can get my degree.

Whose RTU's do you use cheez?

Westronic/GE

(well, that's the kind we frequently use, but not always. This'll be made by Rabbit Semiconductor)