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Accumulating rotations for camera

It seems there are three ways to store a camera's rotation: in angles, view matrix or quaternion. I was using euler angles since when I used a matrix it had a tendency to accumulate rounding errors ...
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1answer
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Finding a suitable axis-angle to avoid gimbal lock

In OpenGL the camera faces the -z axis with the +y axis pointing up. I am using quaternions to represent the orientation of my objects (which works well) and am trying to do the same for the camera. I ...
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How to keep my Quaternion-using FPS camera from tilting and messing up?

I am using an FPS-like camera, and it uses quaternions. But, whenever I try looking up and then sideways, it tilts, and sometimes it can turn upside down. How can I fix this?
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Smooth Camera Offsets

I am attempting to implement a sort of, smooth camera that has angle offsets from the player as they turn, creating a cinematic effect as well as visual feedback for when the player turns. Here is an ...
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2answers
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Why is my quaternion camera rotating around strange axes?

I can't get it to work for the life of me. Its rotating the camera in the global coordinate system, or some other random coordinate system, not the camera local coordinate system. WASDEC work ...
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How do I implement a quaternion based camera?

UPDATE The error here was a pretty simple one. I have missed a radian to degrees conversion. No need to read the whole thing if you have some other problem. I looked at several tutorials about this ...
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OpenGL Camera causes spatial distortion

I'm trying to implement a 3D camera of the "Orbit around the origin" variety in a game engine I'm developing in order to learn about 3D graphics and game programming. I have a basic handle on the ...