Different way of ratating the camera

Question

Hi,
considering using the rotate command can give out odd
resultts, I am trying a different way of rotating my camera.
basically I want my camera to rotate just like how a camera rotates
in a 3d application. I took a look at a different appreoach by
looking at a behaviour script that the chromeLib uses. The
chromeLib behaviour I am referring to is called rotating target
camera. Now, from what I can see, its method is controled by the
left and right arrow keys, and its calculation is done by using
triginometry. In addition, the script only causes the camera to
appear like it is rotating in the z direction. So I took its
formulay and I thought I could switch the rotating axis from z to y
so that the camera would rotate on the y axis. In other words,
instead of this....
on exitFrame me
set x = (cos(pVar) * pDistance)
set y = (sin(pVar) * pDistance)
sprite(spriteNum).camera.transform.position = vector(x, y,
pModel.worldPosition.z + pPlunge)
sprite(spriteNum).camera.pointAt(pModel.worldPosition,
vector(0,0,1))
go to the frame
end
I did this....
on exitFrame me
set x = (cos(pVar) * pDistance)
set z = (sin(pVar) * pDistance)
sprite(spriteNum).camera.transform.position = vector(x,
pModel.worldPosition.y, z)
sprite(spriteNum).camera.pointAt(pModel.worldPosition,
vector(0,1,0))
go to the frame
end
however, when I did this, my camera just flew all over the
place. So how could I get this to work so that the camera could
appear like it is rotating off its y axis?

Answer 1

>basically I want my camera to rotate just like how a
camera rotates in a 3d application
can you explain this a little bit more detailed?
regards!