Quaternions: A Real Pisser

Dave the Embalmer · 2001-07-18T19:00:22

I am writing a little space sim (for my personal game development education only) and I know Quaternions are diffinately the way to go...I''ve read just about every tutorial I can find on them, and I''ve written a class that can do all the mathmatical functions with Quaternions, but I have no idea how to actually use it all =). I''m tired of tutorials saying "...and so the unit vector can do blah blah here''s how to do blah blah but we''re not going to tell you this and that." This and that being how to actually rotate the quaternion, and get that rotation to rotate an object or camera. Can anyone tell me, or point me to a tutorial that will tell me "So, to rotate a quaternion using pitch, yaw, and roll..." and "Now use glLoadMatrix/translate+rotate on this..." I''d very much appreciate it. Thanks!

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Started by Dave the Embalmer July 16, 2001 05:09 PM

20 comments, last by Dave the Embalmer 22 years, 9 months ago

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July 18, 2001 06:47 PM

LOL Dave ... i knicked the skybox off someone else''s site ... for development purposes only (ahem)...

BTW ... got any shots yourself?

also ... check out www.dodgyposse.com ... exactly what we''re all trying not to do ... hmmmmm ... although it is an interesting project to gauge against!

Dave the Embalmer

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July 18, 2001 07:00 PM

Well, here''s the screenshot, but its not much to look at, no objects yet. Just one massive skybox. Atleast IT works just like its suppose to.

http://clanbore.hobbiton.org/mwuahaha.png

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