Discussion: transition smoothly to another parent node

Goutte / godot-trackball-camera

A Godot addon that adds a trackball camera node without gimbal lock.

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Discussion: transition smoothly to another parent node #5

Open Goutte opened 4 years ago

Goutte commented 4 years ago

There are multiple strategies to achieve that.

Some notes

rewrite stuff to trackball around a target node instead of the parent, like some other cameras do
right now the transform of the parent is applied, it may well be a feature for some of us
remove_child, add_child and smooth camera constraint solver ?
probably best to use another class if the changes are expensive, or can't easily be toggled on/off

Goutte commented 4 years ago

There's perhaps also the usage of three cameras : two trackball cameras, one for each parent, and an interpolated camera for the transitions. I have not tested this.

Goutte commented 3 years ago

What I usually do is make the TrackballCamera a child of a Spatial node called Eye or something, and move the Eye around.