Basic camera types
The following are the camera types that we will discuss in this chapter.
- Orbiting camera
- Tracking camera
Orbiting camera
Up to this point, we have seen how we can generate rotations and translations of the world in the world or camera coordinates. However, in both cases, we are always generating the rotations around the center of the world. This could be ideal for many cases where we are orbiting around a 3D object such as our Nissan GTX model. You put the object at the center of the world, then you can examine the object at different angles (rotation) and then you move away (translation) to see the result. Let's call this type of camera an orbiting camera.
Tracking camera
Now, going back to the example of the first person shooting ...
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