[osg-users] LookAt() function parameter meanings..

[Rowley, Marlin R]

All,

I'm very confused by the parameters passed into this function.  I am going over some of the legacy code and saw this line of code:

osg::Matrixd frustumView;
frustumView.makeLookAt(VIEW_POS, mDirection, mUp);

saw the docs, it's described like this:

void makeLookAt(const Vec3d& eye,const Vec3d& center,const Vec3d& up);

So in this context, I would think that "eye" represents the look vector.  However, it seems to work like a position vector.  The "center" parameter expects a direction vector (0, -1, 0) where the look vector is along the -yaxis.

This matrix will not translate to OpenGL properly since it's coordinate system is based off of a right handed coordinate frame.

Questions:


  1.  Am I interpreting these parameters properly?
  2.  How would I convert this system to the OpenGL right-handed system?

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