fps forward movement and gluLookAt

Hi,

I am writing code for camera control within a skeletal glut program that already has key press capability. It will be modeled after FPS shooter movement schemes. Starting with gluLookAt(Ex,Ey,Ez,Ox,Oy,Oz,0,1,0) how do I create a camera eye and virtual object position that will represent “forward”. Once I learn this direction I can go to the others.

I am going to have the umbrage to answer some of my own question in case anyone else lands on this discussion. A site/tutorial that does exactly above is here:http://www.swiftless.com/tutorials/opengl/camera2.html
The site has all of the source code to create FPS movement. However, it is a little short on explanation.

In the event anyone else is interested in this solution I am posting the code below. It had significant whitespace, end-of-line and editing issues. I put in my include information with the source codes to make it work such as #define GLUT_DISABLE_ATEXIT_HACK used on my Eclipse Luna IDE. You might get a “stray \222” error or something similar, but this is resolved by properly editing the text to change quotations to ’ from `and any other strange characters. Oh, don’t forget to add your glut32.dll to your .exe folder!


#define GLUT_DISABLE_ATEXIT_HACK
#ifdef __APPLE__
#include <GLUT/glut.h>
#else
#include <GL/glut.h>
#endif
#include<iostream>
#include<stdlib.h>	//exit(0)
#include<math.h>

//angle of rotation
float xpos = 0, ypos = 0, zpos = 0, xrot = 0, yrot = 0, angle=0.0;

float lastx, lasty;

//positions of the cubes
float positionz[10];
float positionx[10];

void cubepositions (void) { //set the positions of the cubes

    for (int i=0;i<10;i++)
    {
    positionz[i] = rand()%5 + 5;
    positionx[i] = rand()%5 + 5;
    }
}

//draw the cube
void cube (void) {
    for (int i=0;i<10;i++)
    {
    glPushMatrix();
    glTranslated(-positionx[i + 1] * 10, 0, -positionz[i + 1] * 10); //translate the cube
    glutSolidCube(2); //draw the cube
    glPopMatrix();
    }
}

void init (void) {
cubepositions();
}

void enable (void) {
    glEnable (GL_DEPTH_TEST); //enable the depth testing
    glEnable (GL_LIGHTING); //enable the lighting
    glEnable (GL_LIGHT0); //enable LIGHT0, our Diffuse Light
    glShadeModel (GL_SMOOTH); //set the shader to smooth shader

}

void camera (void) {
	glRotatef(xrot,1.0,0.0,0.0);  //rotate our camera on the x-axis (left and right)
    glRotatef(yrot,0.0,1.0,0.0);  //rotate our camera on the y-axis (up and down)
    glTranslated(-xpos,-ypos,-zpos); //translate the screen to the position of our camera
}

void display (void) {
    glClearColor (0.0,0.0,0.0,1.0); //clear the screen to black
    glClear (GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT); //clear the color buffer and the depth buffer
    glLoadIdentity();
    camera();
    enable();
    cube(); //call the cube drawing function
    glutSwapBuffers(); //swap the buffers
    angle++; //increase the angle
}

void reshape (int w, int h) {
    glViewport (0, 0, (GLsizei)w, (GLsizei)h); //set the viewport to the current window specifications
    glMatrixMode (GL_PROJECTION); //set the matrix to projection
    glLoadIdentity ();
    gluPerspective (60, (GLfloat)w / (GLfloat)h, 1.0, 1000.0); //set the perspective (angle of sight, width, height, depth)
    glMatrixMode (GL_MODELVIEW); //set the matrix back to model

}

void keyboard (unsigned char key, int x, int y) {
    if (key=='q')
    {
    xrot += 1;
    if (xrot >360) xrot -= 360;
    }

    if (key=='z')
    {
    xrot -= 1;
    if (xrot < -360) xrot += 360;
    }

    if (key=='w')
    {
    float xrotrad, yrotrad;
    yrotrad = (yrot / 180 * 3.141592654f);
    xrotrad = (xrot / 180 * 3.141592654f);
    xpos += float(sin(yrotrad)) ;
    zpos -= float(cos(yrotrad)) ;
    ypos -= float(sin(xrotrad)) ;
    }

    if (key=='s')
    {
    float xrotrad, yrotrad;
    yrotrad = (yrot / 180 * 3.141592654f);
    xrotrad = (xrot / 180 * 3.141592654f);
    xpos -= float(sin(yrotrad));
    zpos += float(cos(yrotrad)) ;
    ypos += float(sin(xrotrad));
    }

    if (key=='d')
    {
    float yrotrad;
    yrotrad = (yrot / 180 * 3.141592654f);
    xpos += float(cos(yrotrad)) * 0.2;
    zpos += float(sin(yrotrad)) * 0.2;
    }

    if (key=='a')
    {
    float yrotrad;
    yrotrad = (yrot / 180 * 3.141592654f);
    xpos -= float(cos(yrotrad)) * 0.2;
    zpos -= float(sin(yrotrad)) * 0.2;
    }

    if (key==27)
    {
    exit(0);
    }
}

void mouseMovement(int x, int y) {
    int diffx=x-lastx; //check the difference between the current x and the last x position
    int diffy=y-lasty; //check the difference between the current y and the last y position
    lastx=x; //set lastx to the current x position
    lasty=y; //set lasty to the current y position
    xrot += (float) diffy; //set the xrot to xrot with the addition of the difference in the y position
    yrot += (float) diffx;    //set the xrot to yrot with the addition of the difference in the x position
}

int main (int argc, char **argv) {
    glutInit (&argc, argv);
    glutInitDisplayMode (GLUT_DOUBLE | GLUT_DEPTH);
    glutInitWindowSize (500, 500);
    glutInitWindowPosition (100, 100);
    glutCreateWindow ("A basic FPS OpenGL Window");
    init ();
    glutDisplayFunc (display);
    glutIdleFunc (display);
    glutReshapeFunc (reshape);
    glutPassiveMotionFunc(mouseMovement); //check for mouse movement
    glutKeyboardFunc (keyboard);
    glutMainLoop ();
    return 0;
}