Shaking the Camera

[SFMLNewGuy]

Hello,

So I was trying to see if I could emulate a camera shake (like when you get hit). I'm not having much success though. Does anyone have a good way to do this?


What I was trying to do is rotating it based on my delta time. Such as:

if(bShake) {
dt+=deltaTime;
if(dt > 0.01)
    camera.rotate(90);
if(dt > 0.03)
     camera.rotate(-100);
if(dt > 0.06)
     camera.rotate(110);
etc....
if(dt>1.f)
shake=false;
(set the camera back to default)
dt=0;
}

and ending back to the normal position.

It doesn't work how I imagined it. It's very slow, I tried messing with the times to make them quicker. I'm looking for a way to do this correctly. A very quick back and forth (rumble) Thanks.

[AlexAUT]

You can try something like this: https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/47565

[SFMLNewGuy]

Hey, thanks! My link to this message ended up in the wrong folder. That's helpful!

Take care

[Hapax]

I once implemented a simple camera shake in my version of the SFML logo animation, like this:

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https://github.com/Hapaxia/SfmlLogoAnimation/blob/master/SfmlLogoAnimation/SfmlLogoAnimation.cpp#L232-L241
void SfmlLogoAnimation::priv_updateShake(const sf::View& startingView)
{
        view = startingView;
        if ((currentTime >= shakeStart) && (currentTime <= (shakeStart + shakeLength)))
        {
                const float ratio{ (currentTime - shakeStart) / shakeLength };
                const float strength{ shakeStrength * (1.f - ratio) };
                view.move({ (static_cast<float>(rand() % 200) / 100.f - 1.f) * strength, (static_cast<float>(rand() % 200) / 100.f - 1.f) * strength });
        }
}

It ended up looking like this:

[SFMLNewGuy]

I once implemented a simple camera shake in my version of the SFML logo animation, like this:

(click to show/hide)

https://github.com/Hapaxia/SfmlLogoAnimation/blob/master/SfmlLogoAnimation/SfmlLogoAnimation.cpp#L232-L241
void SfmlLogoAnimation::priv_updateShake(const sf::View& startingView)
{
        view = startingView;
        if ((currentTime >= shakeStart) && (currentTime <= (shakeStart + shakeLength)))
        {
                const float ratio{ (currentTime - shakeStart) / shakeLength };
                const float strength{ shakeStrength * (1.f - ratio) };
                view.move({ (static_cast<float>(rand() % 200) / 100.f - 1.f) * strength, (static_cast<float>(rand() % 200) / 100.f - 1.f) * strength });
        }
}

It ended up looking like this:

Wow! That was really cool man. I couldn't get that function to work on my program. So I'll have to look at it deeper, thought I covered all the variables, but I'm not using them right. Thanks for the example.

[Paul]

GDC is really good source: