OpenGL Rotation/Translation Problem

Hello,

I use glRotatef & glTranslatef to “rotate my camera”.

glRotatef(-zanglecamera, 0, 0, 1);
glRotatef(-yanglecamera[1], 0, 1, 0);
glRotatef(-xanglecamera[0], 1, 0, 0);
glTranslatef(-xposcamera, -yposcamera, -zposcamera);

The problem is that my input is translation and rotation in a global-coordinate-system. That means that the x-axis stays the same after rotation around the z axis.
The same is true for the translation after the rotation. This does not work with the code shown above as opengl rotates the coordinate system.

I think the translation problem is solved by doing the translation before the rotation. If that is true then i still have the problem with the rotations.

I hope someone can help me with this problem.

Hi,
Why don’t you make the use of homogeneous matrices?
You can calculate the translation and rotation matrices and then apply a uniform matrix for all of them (rotation+translation) by loading the matrix before your drawing.

Have you test with only two rotations axis at the same time ?

With three rotations axis, the result is sometime very surprising because the last rotation “modify/destroy” the two firsts rotations that are make before …

If you want to rotate around an arbitrary axis, take a look at http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/modeling/mod_tran/3drota.htm or http://inside.mines.edu/~gmurray/ArbitraryAxisRotation/ for example