{"id":1926,"date":"2011-01-19T21:12:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2011-01-19T21:16:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T10:16:45","slug":"vgknowhow-2-cameras-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2011\/01\/19\/vgknowhow-2-cameras-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"VGKnowHow #2:  Cameras (part one)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JyK4IGoi6kY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I was hoping that the studio would be available again by now, but since it isn&#8217;t, I decided to try my hand at producing my own video using my own gear. \u00a0I&#8217;m interested in what people think; \u00a0is the audio quality okay? \u00a0I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s as crisp as the proper studio sound, but.. for a home production, perhaps not too bad?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d kill for a softbox and a supply of acoustic foam, though. \u00a0:)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Show notes and addenda:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For those in the professional industry, I should mention that making great game cameras is not a good way to try to get noticed by your boss; \u00a0as I said in the episode, people only ever notice bad cameras; good cameras just blend into and improve a game without ever calling attention to themselves. \u00a0This means that you can&#8217;t impress your boss by creating a great camera, as great cameras are invisible to people playing the game. \u00a0If you want to get ahead in the industry, I recommend trying your hand at something more visible, instead (or in addition!).<\/li>\n<li>The alternate camera seen in the Asteroids demo is a &#8220;Lerp Follow&#8221;-type camera, which interpolates both the camera position and the camera&#8217;s facing, to attempt to face the same direction as the player.<\/li>\n<li>C++ source code for the testbed application seen in this episode is available from my public Subversion repository located here: \u00a0http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/get-games\/vectorstorm-test-harness-games\/ \u00a0Project files are provided for MSDev 2008 and for XCode.<\/li>\n<li>If you just want to see the C++ code for the various camera behaviours, you can see them directly within your web browser here: http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/svn\/repos\/VectorStorm\/trunk\/Games\/CameraTest\/CT_CameraScript.cpp<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was hoping that the studio would be available again by now, but since it isn&#8217;t, I decided to try my hand at producing my own video using my own gear. \u00a0I&#8217;m interested in what people think; \u00a0is the audio quality okay? \u00a0I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s as crisp as the proper studio sound, but.. for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-v4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}