Camera commands

Overview

• /cam Use camera
• /cam/pos Camera position
• /cam/look Camera look at
• /cam/orbit Orbit camera
• /cam/set Set camera property

Reference

Use camera

/cam

Arguments:

• camera (string) switch camera

Examples:

~visuals.sendMsg('/cam', "default"); // enable default (ofCamera) camera
~visuals.sendMsg('/cam', ""); // disable camera
~visuals.sendMsg('/cam', "easy"); // enable easy (ofEasyCam) camera

Camera position

/cam/pos

Arguments:

• x (float)
• y (float)
• z (float)
• duration (float)

Examples:

~visuals.sendMsg('/cam/pos', 1, 2, 100); // set camera position
~visuals.sendMsg('/cam/pos', 0, 0, -3000, 10); // zoom out camera over 10 seconds

// map camera distance to a sine variable oscillating between 400 and 500
~visuals.sendMsg('/var', "sine_osc", "sin");
~visuals.sendMsg('/var/range', "sine_osc", 400, 1500);
// map camera's z coordinate to sine_osc variable
~visuals.sendMsg('/cam/pos', 0, 0, "sine_osc");

Camera look

/cam/look

Arguments:

• x (float)
• y (float)
• z (float)
• duration (float)

Examples:

~visuals.sendMsg('/cam/look', 0, 0, 0); // set camera to look at center of the scene

Camera orbit

/cam/orbit

Arguments:

• degrees (float) degrees per second
• duration (float)

Examples:

~visuals.sendMsg('/cam/orbit', 20); // orbit camera 20 degrees per second

Camera set

/cam/set

Arguments:

• property (string)
• arg1 (float)
• arg2 (float)
• arg3 (float)

Examples:

~visuals.sendMsg('/cam/set', "nearClip", 0.1);
~visuals.sendMsg('/cam/set', "farClip", 10000);
~visuals.sendMsg('/cam/set', "globalPosition", 0, 0, -870);
~visuals.sendMsg('/cam/set', "distance", 1000); // only when camera is set to "easy"
~visuals.sendMsg('/cam/set', "autoDistance", false); // only when camera is set to "easy"
~visuals.sendMsg('/cam/set', "movementMaxSpeed", 1); // only when camera is set to "fp"