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Game Programming Gems 2

Started by treeway Aug 9, 2006 at 8:02 AM 5 replies 1.3k views

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Aug 9, 2006 at 8:02 AM

Hi I’m working on a third person game in the vein of Mario 64. I read an article recently on the camera system - an appendix in Game Programming Gems 2. The problem is that I no longer have the book (it was from my universities library and my local library doesn’t stock it).I cant find the article anywhere on the net either. Being broke I can’t afford to buy the book for just one appendix. So is there anyone with this book that can help me out? or does anyone know where i can access the article online?

moosedude

Aug 9, 2006 at 8:09 AM

from memory, wasn't that some sort of quaternions based camera system?

The googlenet is full of tutorial's on them!

choffstein

Aug 9, 2006 at 8:11 AM

Mine is currently at home, but I kind of remember there being something about springs in there? I can't really remember...

Sorry =\ Pester me, and I should check it out when I get home in a couple days.

treeway

Aug 9, 2006 at 8:17 AM

yeah its a quaterion based camera with springs ive done most of it but there was some specific stuff in this article about how to animate/ rotate the character. Also i want my system to be as close to Mario as possible so i need this article in particular.

just to clarify, the article is:

Classic Super Mario 64 Third-Person Control and Animation
by Steve Rabin (Nintendo of America)

[Edited by - treeway on August 9, 2006 8:17:39 AM]

moosedude

Aug 12, 2006 at 5:24 AM

You still need this? is it just the character rotating section you need?

treeway

Aug 12, 2006 at 10:51 AM

yeah still after it...

rotation bit would be usefull but would like to check out the whole thing as the implementation i did was from memeory (and could be missing stuff).

thanks

treeway

Aug 15, 2006 at 6:56 AM

okay got it (twice) :)
Thanks to all the people who helped me out on this one.

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