DJTN

Honestly, to me it sounds like you are overanalyzing the "problem". I never encountered anything along those lines that was really noticeable and without seeing this myself I can't imagine what the problem actually looks like. Are you sure the wrong motion isn't caused by something else?

I've stripped my code down to nothing more than a camera and one object being rendered. I'm not overanalyzing the "problem". If the camera's rotations are not smooth, they are not smooth. Some might be ok with a randomly jerking camera, I'm not one of those people.

Thanks?

I'll revisit this at a later time.

Wow, I'm running out of ideas here.

Since my View Matrix is accumalitive (I never reset my axis) - could this be the problem? I update every frame using the D3DXMatrixLookAtLH to build the View Matrix. My camera's Up never changes, only the position and the target.

Shouldn't it be 6.283....?

Yes Hodge, you're correct. I was truncating the float in my code to gain precision.

Another thing that occurs to me is that if your CameraPosition vector was a long way from the origin, then there'd be a lot of error when you create your CameraTarget vector by adding the unit vector, which could explain some oddness. Could you check that's not the case?

My camera position is (0,8,0). My target is (1,8,0) at the start. When I break on the code after the first value of 0.003 for hRadians has been calculated the target becomes (0.9999955, 8, 0.002999996) with the position vector staying the same.

The target for the next 90+ frames:

Frame: 0 Target: (1 , 8 , 0)
Frame: 1 Target: (0.9999955 , 8 , 0.002999996)
Frame: 2 Target: (0.999982 , 8 , 0.005999964)
Frame: 3 Target: (0.9999595 , 8 , 0.008999879)
Frame: 4 Target: (0.999928 , 8 , 0.01199971)
Frame: 5 Target: (0.9998875 , 8 , 0.01499944)
Frame: 6 Target: (0.999838 , 8 , 0.01799903)
Frame: 7 Target: (0.9997795 , 8 , 0.02099846)
Frame: 8 Target: (0.999712 , 8 , 0.0239977)
Frame: 9 Target: (0.9996355 , 8 , 0.02699672)
Frame: 10 Target: (0.99955 , 8 , 0.0299955)
Frame: 11 Target: (0.9994556 , 8 , 0.03299401)
Frame: 12 Target: (0.9993521 , 8 , 0.03599223)
Frame: 13 Target: (0.9992396 , 8 , 0.03899011)
Frame: 14 Target: (0.9991181 , 8 , 0.04198765)
Frame: 15 Target: (0.9989877 , 8 , 0.04498481)
Frame: 16 Target: (0.9988482 , 8 , 0.04798157)
Frame: 17 Target: (0.9986998 , 8 , 0.05097789)
Frame: 18 Target: (0.9985424 , 8 , 0.05397375)
Frame: 19 Target: (0.998376 , 8 , 0.05696913)
Frame: 20 Target: (0.9982005 , 8 , 0.059964)
Frame: 21 Target: (0.9980162 , 8 , 0.06295833)
Frame: 22 Target: (0.9978228 , 8 , 0.06595208)
Frame: 23 Target: (0.9976205 , 8 , 0.06894525)
Frame: 24 Target: (0.9974091 , 8 , 0.0719378)
Frame: 25 Target: (0.9971888 , 8 , 0.07492969)
Frame: 26 Target: (0.9969596 , 8 , 0.07792092)
Frame: 27 Target: (0.9967213 , 8 , 0.08091144)
Frame: 28 Target: (0.9964741 , 8 , 0.08390123)
Frame: 29 Target: (0.9962179 , 8 , 0.08689027)
Frame: 30 Target: (0.9959527 , 8 , 0.08987853)
Frame: 31 Target: (0.9956786 , 8 , 0.09286598)
Frame: 32 Target: (0.9953955 , 8 , 0.09585259)
Frame: 33 Target: (0.9951035 , 8 , 0.09883834)
Frame: 34 Target: (0.9948025 , 8 , 0.1018232)
Frame: 35 Target: (0.9944926 , 8 , 0.1048071)
Frame: 36 Target: (0.9941736 , 8 , 0.1077901)
Frame: 37 Target: (0.9938458 , 8 , 0.1107722)
Frame: 38 Target: (0.9935091 , 8 , 0.1137532)
Frame: 39 Target: (0.9931633 , 8 , 0.1167332)
Frame: 40 Target: (0.9928086 , 8 , 0.1197122)
Frame: 41 Target: (0.9924451 , 8 , 0.1226901)
Frame: 42 Target: (0.9920725 , 8 , 0.1256668)
Frame: 43 Target: (0.9916911 , 8 , 0.1286425)
Frame: 44 Target: (0.9913006 , 8 , 0.131617)
Frame: 45 Target: (0.9909014 , 8 , 0.1345903)
Frame: 46 Target: (0.9904931 , 8 , 0.1375624)
Frame: 47 Target: (0.9900759 , 8 , 0.1405333)
Frame: 48 Target: (0.9896499 , 8 , 0.1435029)
Frame: 49 Target: (0.989215 , 8 , 0.1464712)
Frame: 50 Target: (0.9887711 , 8 , 0.1494382)
Frame: 51 Target: (0.9883183 , 8 , 0.1524038)
Frame: 52 Target: (0.9878566 , 8 , 0.1553681)
Frame: 53 Target: (0.9873861 , 8 , 0.1583309)
Frame: 54 Target: (0.9869066 , 8 , 0.1612924)
Frame: 55 Target: (0.9864184 , 8 , 0.1642524)
Frame: 56 Target: (0.9859211 , 8 , 0.1672109)
Frame: 57 Target: (0.9854151 , 8 , 0.1701679)
Frame: 58 Target: (0.9849001 , 8 , 0.1731234)
Frame: 59 Target: (0.9843763 , 8 , 0.1760773)
Frame: 60 Target: (0.9838437 , 8 , 0.1790297)
Frame: 61 Target: (0.9833022 , 8 , 0.1819804)
Frame: 62 Target: (0.9827518 , 8 , 0.1849295)
Frame: 63 Target: (0.9821926 , 8 , 0.1878769)
Frame: 64 Target: (0.9816245 , 8 , 0.1908226)
Frame: 65 Target: (0.9810476 , 8 , 0.1937666)
Frame: 66 Target: (0.980462 , 8 , 0.1967089)
Frame: 67 Target: (0.9798674 , 8 , 0.1996494)
Frame: 68 Target: (0.979264 , 8 , 0.2025881)
Frame: 69 Target: (0.9786519 , 8 , 0.205525)
Frame: 70 Target: (0.9780309 , 8 , 0.20846)
Frame: 71 Target: (0.9774011 , 8 , 0.2113932)
Frame: 72 Target: (0.9767625 , 8 , 0.2143244)
Frame: 73 Target: (0.9761152 , 8 , 0.2172538)
Frame: 74 Target: (0.975459 , 8 , 0.2201811)
Frame: 75 Target: (0.9747941 , 8 , 0.2231065)
Frame: 76 Target: (0.9741204 , 8 , 0.2260299)
Frame: 77 Target: (0.9734379 , 8 , 0.2289513)
Frame: 78 Target: (0.9727467 , 8 , 0.2318705)
Frame: 79 Target: (0.9720467 , 8 , 0.2347877)
Frame: 80 Target: (0.9713379 , 8 , 0.2377028)
Frame: 81 Target: (0.9706205 , 8 , 0.2406158)
Frame: 82 Target: (0.9698942 , 8 , 0.2435265)
Frame: 83 Target: (0.9691593 , 8 , 0.2464351)
Frame: 84 Target: (0.9684156 , 8 , 0.2493415)
Frame: 85 Target: (0.9676632 , 8 , 0.2522456)
Frame: 86 Target: (0.9669021 , 8 , 0.2551475)
Frame: 87 Target: (0.9661323 , 8 , 0.258047)
Frame: 88 Target: (0.9653539 , 8 , 0.2609442)
Frame: 89 Target: (0.9645667 , 8 , 0.2638391)
Frame: 90 Target: (0.9637709 , 8 , 0.2667316)
Frame: 91 Target: (0.9629663 , 8 , 0.2696217)
Frame: 92 Target: (0.9621531 , 8 , 0.2725094)
Frame: 93 Target: (0.9613312 , 8 , 0.2753946)
Frame: 94 Target: (0.9605008 , 8 , 0.2782773)
Frame: 95 Target: (0.9596616 , 8 , 0.2811576)
Frame: 96 Target: (0.9588138 , 8 , 0.2840353)
Frame: 97 Target: (0.9579574 , 8 , 0.2869104)
Frame: 98 Target: (0.9570924 , 8 , 0.289783)

How about D3DXToRadian() and use 0-360 values?

A lot of overhead making that change. I'll need to figure out a way I cant test it before going all the way.

What is the absolute value of hRadians?

hRadians is set to zero and 0.002 is added each frame. 6.0 in hRadians is a complete circle. It doesn't appear to be related with the inaccuracies coming from the distance from zero.