Wrong 3D coordinate when using ofEasyCam?

#1

Just noticed weird behaviour of ofEasyCam.
I understand oF is using Left-handed coordinate system for 3D as same with OpenGL.
However when I use ofEasyCam, it seems working with Right-handed.

Test code here,

ofEasyCam cam;
bool useCam;

void ofApp::draw(){
    
    if(useCam){
        cam.begin();
    }else{
        ofPushMatrix();
        ofTranslate(ofGetWidth()/2-50, ofGetHeight()/2-50);
    }
    
    
    ofNoFill();
    ofDrawAxis(200);
    
    ofSetColor(200, 0, 100);
    ofPushMatrix();
    ofTranslate(0, 0, (ofGetFrameNum()*5)%600);
    ofDrawBox(0,0, 10, 10);
    ofPopMatrix();
    
    if(useCam){
        cam.end();
    }else{
        ofPopMatrix();
    }
}

//--------------------------------------------------------------
void ofApp::keyPressed(int key){
    useCam = !useCam;
}

and screenshots

default coordinate, Left-handed

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ofEasyCam, Right-handed

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Screen Shot 2019-01-24 at 2.51.08 PM.png1136×902 13.7 KB

Tested on OSX, oF latest master

#2

I noticed ofSetCoordHandedness(OF_LEFT_HANDED); method but it does not change situation.

#3

Hi, I’d rather say that this is because the cameras have the y axis flipped. So, when you draw without a camera the Y axis starts at the top of the screen and it increases as it goes down the screen.
With a camera you get the Y axis flipped so, positive Y axis values go up in the screen.

You can switch this by calling cam.setVFlip(false);

let me know if this fixed the issue.

cheers

#4

Thank you Roy,

True that cam.setVFlip(true) makes ofEasycam left-handed.
But feeling strange that oF default and ofEasyCam having a different 3D coordinate system. :thinking:

#5

The default OF view is thought to be used mainly with 2D where y growing downwards makes more sense because of how the mouse coordinates or image coordinates work.

in 3D though, when using a camera, having y growing upwards is more standard that’s why ofCamera defaults to that.

we could have flipped z in any of them to have the same handedness in both by i imagine it would have been even more confusing