PerspectiveCamera

Represents a camera that uses perspective projection.

This projection mode is designed to mimic the way the human eye sees. It is the most common projection mode used for rendering a 3D scene.

Although multiple cameras can be added to the scene graph and inherit transformations from their parent objects, only one camera is rendered at a time, the one passed to Renderer::Render. Construct the camera directly with the window's aspect ratio and pass it into the render call each frame.

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auto camera = vglx::PerspectiveCamera::Create({
  .fov = vglx::math::DegToRad(60.0f),
  .aspect = window.AspectRatio(),
  .near = 0.1f,
  .far = 1000.0f
});

renderer.Render(scene.get(), camera.get());

INFO

Derives from Camera and inherits all public properties and methods.

Construction

Constructors

PerspectiveCamera()

Constructs a perspective camera.

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PerspectiveCamera::PerspectiveCamera(const Parameters& params);

Parameter	Description
params	Initialization parameters for constructing the camera.

Factories preferred

PerspectiveCamera::Create() std::unique_ptr<PerspectiveCamera>

Creates an instance of PerspectiveCamera with default parameters.

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static std::unique_ptr<PerspectiveCamera> PerspectiveCamera::Create();

PerspectiveCamera::Create() std::unique_ptr<PerspectiveCamera>

Creates an instance of PerspectiveCamera.

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static std::unique_ptr<PerspectiveCamera> PerspectiveCamera::Create(const Parameters& params);

Parameter	Description
params	Initialization parameters for constructing the camera.

Types

PerspectiveCamera::Parameters struct

Parameters for constructing a PerspectiveCamera object.

Parameter	Description
fov float	Vertical field of view in radians.
aspect float	Aspect ratio.
near float	Distance to the near clipping plane.
far float	Distance to the far clipping plane.

Functions

SetLens() void

Configures perspective projection parameters.

Updates the camera's vertical field of view, near plane, and far plane, and rebuilds the projection transform accordingly. The aspect ratio remains unchanged until Resize is called.

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void PerspectiveCamera::SetLens(float fov, float near, float far);

Parameter	Description
fov	Vertical field of view in radians.
near	Distance to the near clipping plane.
far	Distance to the far clipping plane.