jlv wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2026 3:53 am
People have a right to be disappointed with the progress lately. Complaining won't speed things up but I do understand the disappointment. There are things taking my time that are outside of my control right now.
1st person cam is fine the way it is imo but it would be very helpful if it were possible to look to our left & right. Being able to take a quick peak to check your inside coming into bowl corners in sx would be so sick. Being able to check your inside off the start as well.
Set it up so when you press the key/button the camera starts to pan to the left/right until about 2 or 3 o'clock. Also make the camera pan back to the original position as soon as you release the button so you have full control of how far you want to look over for specific situations.
Maybe even have the option to customize how quickly the camera pans as well like a slider for "camera pan speed"
What I really want to do is move the camera positioning code to javascript so it can be fully customized. It needs to be a separate context from the gameplay script though.
TeamHavocRacing wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2026 6:14 pm
On a lighter note, this made me think of your killer sense of humor and the "Daytona Disappointment" track release!
That was quite an all-nighter for me!
Josh Vanderhoof
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jlv wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2026 3:22 am
What I really want to do is move the camera positioning code to javascript so it can be fully customized. It needs to be a separate context from the gameplay script though.
TeamHavocRacing wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2026 6:14 pm
On a lighter note, this made me think of your killer sense of humor and the "Daytona Disappointment" track release!
So I really didn't want to hard code this and instead make something scriptable which could be infinitely customized by the user. But realistically it's going to be a while until I have a UI scripting system in place. Since this seems important to a lot of people I think I'll just hard code it now.
You guys want it to lock the camera Y axis to the world Y axis right? Meaning that the camera just yaws around without any pitch or roll.
I figure I'll solve the gimbal lock problem by interpolating between the rider Y axis and world Y axis, using 100% world axis when the rider's Y is vertical and 100% rider Y axis then the rider is horizontal.
Does that sound like a reasonable plan?
Josh Vanderhoof
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Also, thinking a little more about what I said about gimbal lock with the world Y aligned camera and I don't think my plan would actually work well. I'm thinking it wouldn't look good when you lean way over and the camera rolls as it goes horizonal.
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