Camera not managed by a SceneManager

[andrecaldas]

I am writing a multi-threaded application. It is very important to me that some objects, shared among threads, be managed by std::shared_ptr. This is the scenario:

1. Input events are handled by a thread different from the rendering thread.
2. The input event handler needs a reference to the (to be made "atomic") camera, so it can "control" the camera.

However, Ogre::Camera and Ogre::SceneManager have a somewhat promiscuous relationship, because the scene manager needs to know if objects are visible or not. So, if the camera is not created by Ogre::SceneManager::createCamera, things do not work.

Since Ogre::SceneManager::mCamVisibleObjectsMap is protected, the only solution I see for using a self-managed camera, is to subclass Ogre::SceneManager to implement some registerCamera() / unregisterCamera().

Any thoughts (besides "never use multi-threading")?

PS: Yes, I know that multi-threading is very dangerous.
PPS: I am successfully using OgreBites and SDL3.

[andrecaldas]

The input event handler needs a reference to the (to be made "atomic") camera, so it can "control" the camera.

That was very silly of me, I am sorry!

This is my first Ogre program... I realize that I do not need to "control" the camera. I just need to control the "camera node" . And it seems it is completely okay to create a node without using the scene manager...