I'm happy to announce the availability of version 0.6.0 of my camera-control library for 3D sketches, PeasyCam ("P" for Processing, "Peasy" for easy-peasy).

 http://mrfeinberg.com/peasycam/

This version introduces a brace of methods, courtesy of A.W. Martin, which make it easy-peasy to maintain a heads-up display, or HUD. In your draw() method, simply call cam.beginHUD() and cam.endHUD() around anything you'd like draw relative to the camera's position and orientation.

Development is hosted at GitHub:

 http://github.com/jdf/peasycam/

Code:

PeasyCam camera;

void setup() {
    camera = new PeasyCam(this, 0, 0, 0, 50);
} 

That's it. Now a mouse left-drag will rotate the camera around the subject, a right drag will zoom in and out, and a middle-drag (command-left-drag on mac) will pan. A double-click restores the camera to its original position.

It is free for all uses, per the Apache 2.0 license. Please try it out, and let me know how it goes for you.

This came in at just the right time for me.

Thanks Jonathan and congrats for the awesome library.

Gian Chatz

--oh, and a tiny suggestion: maybe you could incorporate this function in the example app on your webpage.

If you find out the details, please keep us posted.  You may want to e-mail or PM Jon.  At the moment, I'm using a different method for a HUD with PeasyCam so I haven't had a need to test this new feature out, but I love the simplicity of it and would consider using it in the future.

Here is what I'm currently doing:
Code:

import peasy.*;

PeasyCam cam;
PMatrix3D currCameraMatrix;
PGraphics3D g3;

void setup() {
  size(200,200,P3D);
  cam = new PeasyCam(this, 100);
  cam.setMinimumDistance(50);
  cam.setMaximumDistance(500);
  g3 = (PGraphics3D)g;
  hint(DISABLE_DEPTH_TEST);
}

void draw(){

  rotateX(-.5);
  rotateY(-.5);
  background(0);
  fill(255,0,0);
  box(30);
  pushMatrix();
  translate(0,0,20);
  fill(0,0,255);
  box(5);
  popMatrix();

  currCameraMatrix = new PMatrix3D(g3.camera);
  camera();
  //  Start HUD
  fill(255);
  rect(10,10,80,30);
  //  End HUD
  g3.camera = currCameraMatrix;
} 

I'm sorry, I don't understand your question.  The hud stays in place during any 3d camera movement going on in the background.  I haven't had any issues and I use it quite a bit.  My main thought on using the built in method was for coding simplicity, and perhaps a slight performance improvement (not sure if the built in method does it more efficiently).

MeLight wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2009, 1:07pm:


This is probably due to faulty naming. Names are case-sensitive, make sure the library folder has the same name as the .jar file.

hi there,

gratulations for this awesome library.

I was wondering if there is a way to change from mouse controlling to keyboard controlling?

Hi all,

i am using pEasyCam, but i somehow cannot get to display simple shapes to the screen whithout them being affected by the camera. I would like to have a rectangle containing a set of buttons alwas on top of the actual objects of the scene, for the user to select stuff, but i cannot get it to work...

any suggestions?

thanks in advance, and thanks for the libraries, they make life soo easier!

adolfo

I've been experimenting with using the library along with the org.apache.math.commons.geometry stuff that its based on. I can use the Vector3D and Rotation stuff from the Math library (without any extra imports), but there is a new version of Math with new functions that can't be used because Peasy is using an older version. Is it just because Math was updated more recently that the newest version isn't included or is there some other reason? Do you plan to use the newer version for future releases?