Rotating a camera around an Object

Gaming and Visualization Technologies APIs Physics Modeling (closed)
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Hi all,

I’m working on a PhysX project with GLUT and I’m attempting to have a camera rotate around an object, steered by the mouse.

My first step was to port over the C# code found here:
http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/MouseOrbitImproved

This is for Unity but allowed exactly what I required (except the raycasts, I’ve omitted those)

This works to some degree - the camera rotates around the object, however it fails to look at the object.

void Camera::UpdateCamera(float mouseX, float mouseY) {
		x += mouseX * xMoveSpeed * distance * 0.02f;
		y -= mouseY * yMoveSpeed * 0.02f;
		
		y = ClampAngle(y, yMinLimit, yMaxLimit);

		PxQuat rot = PxQuat::Euler(PxVec3(y, x, 0));

		distance = PxClamp(distance, distanceMin, distanceMax);
		 
		PxVec3 negDist = PxVec3(0.0f, 0.0f, -distance);
		PxVec3 pos = rot.rotate(negDist) + target->getGlobalPose().p;

		eye = pos;
		dir = PxVec3(y, x, 0);
	}

	float Camera::ClampAngle(float angle, float min, float max) {
		if (angle < -360.0f) 
			angle += 360.0f;
		if (angle > 360.0f)
			angle -= 360.0f;

		return PxClamp(angle, min, max);
	}

(PxQuat::Euler is just a custom function I added to create a Quat from a Vec3)

Does anyone have an idea what is going wrong here? The camera always faces directly downwards.