The new Gamepad Camera is a great addition to Houdini 16.5. Is there a simple way to control the camera with simple mouse/keyboard WASD setup (like a PC game)? I want to be able to fly through my world but I don't have a gamepad near my computer.
Any tips would be appreciated thanks!
Can I use mouse/keyboard with Gamepad Camera?
538 10 1-
- KMcNamara
- Member
- 228 posts
- Joined: Dec. 2012
- Offline
-
- jsmack
- Member
- 1217 posts
- Joined: Sept. 2011
- Offline
-
- KMcNamara
- Member
- 228 posts
- Joined: Dec. 2012
- Offline
-
- mestela
- Member
- 458 posts
- Joined: May 2006
- Online
-
- twod
- Staff
- 4104 posts
- Joined: July 2005
- Offline
KB+M is something we considered for the gamepad camera, but didn't get time to investigate. Since the mouse and keyboard CHOPs are available, it should be doable (except for the “scroll lock” requirement which is a little strange to most, but maybe we can HOM that). The CHOP that grabs the gamepad input is a different CHOP than the one that takes that input and produces a transform, which we deliberately split to allow a variety of input mechanisms going forward.
-
- KMcNamara
- Member
- 228 posts
- Joined: Dec. 2012
- Offline
-
- mestela
- Member
- 458 posts
- Joined: May 2006
- Online
Not sure, I'm not on a mac much these days. A few googles suggest fn-shift-f12, or using maybe trying a virtual on screen keyboard (it's what I had to do on a little surface pro 4 under windows to make this example):
http://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/index.php?title=HoudiniChops#Using_the_beat_chop [www.tokeru.com]
http://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/index.php?title=HoudiniChops#Using_the_beat_chop [www.tokeru.com]
-
- twod
- Staff
- 4104 posts
- Joined: July 2005
- Offline
KMcNamara
Hm, unfortunately I'm on mac so I don't have a scroll lock key. I looked in the hotkey manager for something mapped to ‘scroll’ but couldn't find it. What's that hotkey called?
You can't change the hotkey for this one (not sure why, maybe Scroll Lock isn't a bindable key). But there is a toggle in the Edit menu - Intercept Mode.
-
- Konstantin Kovalenko
- Member
- 22 posts
- Joined: Sept. 2014
- Offline
I made a project with chops for fly mode but there are a lot of problem to make it ideal. I cant get an up vector for rotation and make looking around by mouse more useful, change gamepad data to interactive values instead of always increasing
Press Scroll Lock to activate hotkeys WASD and toggle “1” hotkey to mouse look around
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qA_xkXqVetHEM2aIR7ZwssxswYUh5wCI/view?usp=sharing [drive.google.com]
Press Scroll Lock to activate hotkeys WASD and toggle “1” hotkey to mouse look around
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qA_xkXqVetHEM2aIR7ZwssxswYUh5wCI/view?usp=sharing [drive.google.com]
-
- Konstantin Kovalenko
- Member
- 22 posts
- Joined: Sept. 2014
- Offline
so, I made it, almost what I need, if somebody interested in or want to try, welcome! and any comments and changes welcome too)
Fly Camera
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1NsoI_5LCUGwXKkNW8Zf6_OWkIJcldrZH [drive.google.com]
its an asset camera, help and instruction inside right on asset
Fly Camera
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1NsoI_5LCUGwXKkNW8Zf6_OWkIJcldrZH [drive.google.com]
its an asset camera, help and instruction inside right on asset
-
- art3mis
- Member
- 168 posts
- Joined: June 2016
- Offline
-
- Quick Links