Modelview matrix hell...

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Original post by Slug Any idea?

Sure, but we'll need more info. I would start by posting the code where you set up the transformation for your camera.

ok, so here how it's done in my game:

glPushMatrix();
//Rotate around the scene
glRotatef(xRotation, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f)
glRotatef(yRotation, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f)
//Translate the scene
glTranslatef(xTranslation, yTranslation, zTranslation);

//more code
...

glPopMatrix();


So, i wanna know where the camera is now, in a xyz coordinate.
How did i find that?

You need to position the camera...
glTranslatef(camera.x, camera.y, camera.z);

Then do the camera's rotations...
glRotatef(...)
...


Then push the matrix on the stack and translate/rotate for all objects.

Actually... make that...
glTranslatef(-camera.x, -camera.y, -camera.z);

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Original post by Slug ok, so here how it's done in my game: glPushMatrix(); //Rotate around the scene glRotatef(xRotation, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f) glRotatef(yRotation, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f) //Translate the scene glTranslatef(xTranslation, yTranslation, zTranslation); //more code ... glPopMatrix(); So, i wanna know where the camera is now, in a xyz coordinate. How did i find that?

You usually don't need to 'find out' where the camera is in OpenGL, because you're the one who told OpenGL where it is in the first place. As suggested in the above posts, the problem may be that you're not setting up your camera transform properly: all of the 'Translation' and 'Rotation' values in the above code should be negated.

All the above is rotate the scene

if you do not want to rotate the whole scene but just like change the view point:

glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW)
gluLookAt(XXXXXXXXX)

To give an explanation: Notice that a camera (if using such) is given in the same scene as the objects are. The belonging co-ordinate frame is normally named the "global" or "world" frame. But what you want to display is not the world itself but the cut scene as seen through the camera. So you don't have to render in the global frame but in the local frame of the camera. To come from the global to the camera local frame, you have to apply the _inverse_ transformation of the camera frame (since the frame describes how to come from the local to the global frame), i.e. the inverse (negated) translation and inverse rotation. Notice please that also the typical order is reversed. This inverse transformation is what is meant with the VIEW portion of the MODELVIEW matrix.