FlyBy camera and movementer with the center button of the mouse --Solved

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1

Hello,



I’m using a SimpleApplication class in my game and I try to modify the FlyBy camera.



I wish to move the camera with the center button and not with the left button.

For what I have seen, the classic FlyCam is by default with the left button.



How can I modify that ?

( Should I drop the SimpleApplication on go for a more complex one ? )



Thanks in advance

2

Just switch the mappings, look at the source of SimpleApplication how the flyCam key mappings are set and switch the buttons you want switched.

3

Hello,

Thanks for the tip !



For those who had the some question as me, here is how I solved my problem :





[java]

private void customFlyByCameraMapping()

{

String[] mappings = new String[]{

“FLYCAM_Left”,

“FLYCAM_Right”,

“FLYCAM_Up”,

“FLYCAM_Down”,



“FLYCAM_StrafeLeft”,

“FLYCAM_StrafeRight”,

“FLYCAM_Forward”,

“FLYCAM_Backward”,



“FLYCAM_ZoomIn”,

“FLYCAM_ZoomOut”,

“FLYCAM_RotateDrag”,



“FLYCAM_Rise”,

“FLYCAM_Lower”

};



// Remove last mapping for the flyByCam

inputManager.removeListener( flyCam );



// Change the mappings we don’t want

inputManager.deleteMapping( “FLYCAM_RotateDrag” );

inputManager.addMapping( “FLYCAM_RotateDrag”, new MouseButtonTrigger(MouseInput.BUTTON_MIDDLE ) );



// Recreate the mapping for the flyByCam

inputManager.addListener( flyCam, mappings );

}

[/java]

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4

Hello,
I’m working with the new jme3 RC2 and had also the goal to modify the FlyByCamera-Mappings. I have used a similar customFlyByCameraMapping method and my approach was to call these method at the end of the simpleInitApp() method (in my SimpleApplication subclass). But I figured out that the FlyByCamera is controlled by a FlyCamAppState, which are not initialized until after simpleInitApp(). Now I call customFlyByCameraMapping method from the update() method. But I think thats really a bad hack, rather it is not necessary to change the mapping in each update round. Does anyone has a better approach to customize the FlyByCamera Mappings?

5

You could create an appstate and in that initialize do the setting of the flycam, then detach it. You could create your own fly cam, or you could copy/paste the flycamappstate, disable the original one and attach urs with other code in the initialize method.