I have a vector which points from my camera to an object I want to point to, so I want to make a quaternion which rotates the camera so that it points to that vector. So i do this (using glm)
glm::quat rotation=glm::angleAxis(0.0f,vector);
If i understand that function correctly in the case of a vector of, for example, (0.0f,0.0f,-1.0f), the camera should point forward in the depth axis, and with no roll. But i don’t know why, in that case it creates this quaternion:
x:-0
y:-0
z:-0
w:1
wich does nothing, and the x,y,z values only differ from 0 if the angle parameter passed to angleAxis() is different from 0. Why does this happen? if i pass angle 0, shouldn’t it simply create a rotation with only yaw and pitch, and no roll?
Already go the answer: (on the gameDev forum, from the user clb)
No, your understanding is off. Angle-axis rotation generates rotation about the given axis, by the given angle. If you don’t specify an angle, you’ll always get identity back. This is because rotation a zero angle, be it about any axis, of course does not rotate at all.
What you are thinking about is the LookAt rotation. I am not sure what the function signature in glm is, but I’m sure they have a similar function. Use a LookAt rotation to orient one direction vector to face towards another vector.