Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
In our software we have a camera based on mouse movement, and a quarternion at its heart.
We want to fire projectiles from this position, which we can do, however we want to use the camera to aim. The projectile takes a vector which it will add to its position each game frame.
How do we acquire such a vector from a given camera/quaternion?
The quaternion doesn’t represent a direction, it represents a rotation. You can define a vector that points in the direction that your camera is pointing initially (e.g.
(0,0,1)) and transform it using the rotation represented by the quaternion.