Basic Look / Fly

This video has a great demonstration of a lot of things involved in a simple look to fly game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFMR9YqlsLY

Thanks. I saw that video, the code seems rather random. First he is using quaternions then divide them then multiplying them with what seem a random numbers and finally plug them in the Rotate() method which expects euler angles. Quite confusing really.

Check my instructions here:

viewtopic.php?f=20&t=20032&p=252243#p246259

They are for retrofitting the OVRCameraRig into a Unity First Person Controller.

However, the steps should be similar for a fly / spectator camera.

"cybereality" wrote:
Check my instructions here:

viewtopic.php?f=20&t=20032&p=252243#p246259

Thanks, that is getting closer, however I am now getting the following problems:

- if I look, let's say 10 degrees left, then I would expect my plane to just look straight in that direction, however it will just keep incrementing the rotation.

- The rotation is very fast, shouldn't this be scaled to deltatime somewhere ?

Thanks a lot

Really reaching an impasse here, I've posted a thread on the unityAnswers with more details:

I am trying to make a flight controller with the OVRCameraRig prefab, where the plane forward direction will be equal to the OVR eye forward direction.

I have a "Plane" gameObject with the OVRCameraRig as it's child.

The Plane object has the following script attached to it:

Quaternion rotation = OVRRig.rightEyeAnchor.transform.localRotation;
Quaternion combinedRotation = transform.rotation * rotation;
Quaternion relative = Quaternion.Inverse(transform.rotation) * combinedRotation;
transform.rotation = relative;

With this approach the plane does turn but only a fraction of the actual head rotation. For instance if looking on the right at 90degrees, the plan with steer right by lets say 40degrees.

I've also tried simpler approaches like:

Quaternion rotation = OVRRig.rightEyeAnchor.transform.localRotation;
transform.rotation *= relative;
This results with the plane incrementing its rotation by the amount or head rotation on every frame. Let's say i look 20degrees on the right the plane will keep turning around until I look straight. A little like having a joystick.

No matter what combination I try **I always** seems to end up **with either of the above results**, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Any insight would be greatly appreciated

Hi there ombre,
in your quotation from UnityAnswers, i get the impression that the plane object is supposed to be looking dead center at the OVR cameras, is this right? if so you could try something like this:

public Transform mainCam;
public GameObject myPlaneObject;

void Start ()
{
     mainCam = GameObject.Find("LeftEyeAnchor").transform;
}

void Update ()
{
     myPlaneObject.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler (45f, mainCam.eulerAngles.y, 0f);
}

this is code snippets i have taken from my current project, and i don't set the camera in Unity's Editor, i do it by code.
I just want to show this in hope it could help, you could try to modify it yourself by changing the values to mainCam.eulerAngles.x / y / z maybe it would help you? anyway you can try it out and if it works, great! if not, not so great :P Cheers,

Thanks standtall007,

In the mean time i got it to work by using euler angle cause for some reason i can not find a way to make it work with quaternion. Any ways thanks for taking the time to answer!