So. As the mirrors seem to be moving further and further on the roadmap I decided to take shot at creating mirrors by using the render texture tutorial as a base.

The problem for my crap mathematics comes when I try to calculate the camera matrix for the mirror camera.

I tried looking about how to calculate this but I just couldn't quite figure out how to do it correctly in Esenthel.

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So what I have is
Camera camera[0]; //Main camera
Camera camera[1]; //Camera used for rendering mirrors

in the RenderToTexture() function I setup the Mirror camera as the rendering camera and now im actually able to render the mirror camera to a texture and set it up as a texture for a mesh.

Now here comes the tricky part.
On every mirror object I should try to get the matrix for the mirror camera.
I tried several times to achive this mirrored matrix by using the functions in matrix.h (like inverse and mirror)
Some how It did not give the effect I was looking for.


If anyone has any experience or any advice how to do this It would be very appriaciated.

Have tried the EE::Reflect function? Or perhaps EE::Mirror, though, if I understood the header comments correctly, EE::Reflect is what you want.

Ok.. By mirroring alot of stuff I managed to get the right matrix for the camera.
I also had to calculate the fov according to the surface and that also now seems to be working well enough.
It's not perfect but does the job close enough.

Any chance you'd be willing to post a Code Snippet or write a tutorial for the Wiki? I think a lot of people would be interested in this. I know I am...

Yeah I'll do that as soon as I have the chance.