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peaceman
peaceman

Reputation: 203

OpenGL GLUT mouse movement

I wrote a mouse function for the camera. It works good. But the only problem is at the start, when I do first move with mouse it jumps up-left and then it works good. I don't understand why it happens.

Here the mouse function.

float lastx = 0.0;
float lasty = 0.0;

void mouseMovement(int x, int y) 
{
    lastx = (float)x - lastx;
    lasty = (float)y - lasty;

    if((float)x > lastx)
        Camera.RotateY((-lastx)*0.01);
    else
        Camera.RotateY(lastx*0.01);
    if((float)y > lasty)
        Camera.RotateX(lasty*0.01);
    else 
        Camera.RotateX(-lasty*0.01); 
    lastx = (float)x;
    lasty = (float)y;
    Display();
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9393

Answers (2)

BentFX
BentFX

Reputation: 2836

I'm guessing, If you're tracking all mouse movement you'll need to either catch when the mouse enters or leaves the window, or simply discard any jumps larger than a certain amount.

Let's say that the mouse leaves the right edge of the window, and reenters the left edge of the window. The code you've shown is going to jump.

Unless there's a reason not to, I'd make the last variables static and add an if statement similar to this(not tested :) )...

void mouseMovement(int x, int y) 
{
    static float lastx = 0.0;
    static float lasty = 0.0;

    lastx = (float)x - lastx;
    lasty = (float)y - lasty;

    if((abs((int)lastx)>10)||(abs((int)lasty)>10)
    {
        lastx = (float)x;
        lasty = (float)y;
        return;
    }

   //the rest remains the same

The logic goes... Any event it sees, that isn't near the last event it saw, just resets the variables and waits for another event.

That really isn't an elegant solution for a mouse control, but at this point in your coding it is probably understandable, and will do what you want.

Upvotes: 1

Bartek Banachewicz
Bartek Banachewicz

Reputation: 39400

Move the cursor to the middle of the screen before you start accepting data. And ensure that lastx and lasty are properly initialized.

I am 90% sure it's FPP camera, and you move the cursor to the middle of the screen manually. So it happens it starts in a down-right corner of the window, then is moved, which reports as a delta. It can also be the fact that lastx and lasty are initialized on first read, and prior to that they contain garbage.

Upvotes: 1

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