Using spatial ChaseCamera to follow so that the camera control the rotation of it?

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I need to make a third-person camera, but want to use ChaseCamera for it. So far used chaseCam.setDragToRotate(false); and put cam.setRotation(player.getRotation()) in simpleUpdate thereby got what I wanted, but the mouse is appearing and simply leaks out of the screen ;-; how can I solve this?

2

To hide the cursor, just use:

Mouse.setGrabbed(true);

3

Thanks!

4

Two snippets for the cam:

private void initCamera() {

    app.getFlyByCamera().setEnabled(false);

    camNode = new CameraNode("CamNode", cam);
    //camNode.setControlDir(ControlDirection.SpatialToCamera);
    camNode.setLocalTranslation(new Vector3f(0, 3, 10));
    camNode.lookAt(carNode.getLocalTranslation(), Vector3f.UNIT_Y);

    carNode.attachChild(camNode);
            
}

@Override
public void update(float tpf) { 

    cam.setLocation(player.getPhysicsLocation().add(0,3f,0));
}

They come from an appState. I think the “.lookAt” and the “update” are interesting for you. The “carNode” is attached to the rootNode after all. Oh and camNode is instance of CameraNode!

5

If you don’t want to use fly cam… then don’t include its app state when you start your app.

Search for “remove flycamappstate” and you are bound to get a dozen hits. Easiest way is to just not include it in your constructor’s super() call. Oh, but that implies that you have a constructor for your app and you are only passing the app states you want on the super call. Worth investigating as that’s the “right way” in the end.