Keyboard Navigation
id Software have a lot to answer for in their series of first person shooters.
So pervasive have their interfaces come now everything has to have
"Doom-Style" navigation features. (It actually pre-dates Doom to the
Wolfenstein games). Here, from someone
In response to some questions during mid 1999
Gary S. Moss posted a simple key behaviour
class for simple doom style navigation. As this seemed pretty popular, but
a little clunky, Andrew AJ Cain
rewrote the code to make it much more generic.
The code is a standard behaviour class for use within the Java 3D scenegraph.
Provide the code with the TransformGroup of the viewpoint that
you want to manipulate and it takes care of the rest. As this is a behavior
remember that you need to register scheduling bounds as well as add this to
the scene graph.
Duncan Jauncey has an example applet available that uses the behaviour and
loads 3DS models using the NCSA Portfolio loader. Take a look at his
homepage and click on the
ModelViewer link on the left.
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