Parenting Camera to an Object

[rstackhouse]

I'd like to see the ability to parent a camera to an object built into this engine.

It'd be nice if you could just set the head offset from the object to the camera and the engine would take care of the rest.

[Tiago]

that sounds more like something that should not be bound to the engine, a demo on how to create that behavior would be nice but that kind of functionality depends a lot on what kind of "game" you want to do and so, in my opinion, should not be part of the engine. just the way i see it of course

[Nercury]

I think posibility to set object as camera's target would be better.

[Nemo Krad]

I am sure this is discussed on another thread, but all you have to do is set the cameras position to that of the object you want to follow, the difficult bit is in the camera rotation but you should be able to do all this with the SLERP functionality.

[5parrowhawk]

I'd suggest going one further and building in a TransformNode class which can be inserted into the scenegraph. Parent both the object and the camera to the TransformNode, then set the camera translation separately to offset it, and Bob's your uncle. This also allows for hierarchies of objects so you could have e.g. a battleship with customizable rotating turrets, or an Armored Core!