britzl / defold-gyro

Gyroscope extension for the Defold game engine

Gyro

This is a gyroscope extension for the Defold game engine.

System requirements

The extension currently only supports iOS and Android.

Installation

You can use the Gyro extension in your own project by adding this project as a Defold library dependency. Open your game.project file and in the dependencies field under project add:

https://github.com/britzl/defold-gyro/archive/master.zip

Usage

function init(self)
  gyro.start(function(self, quatx, quaty, quatz, quatw)
    go.set_rotation(vmath.quat(quatx, quaty, quatz, quatw))
  end)
end

function final(self)
  gyro.stop()
end

Example

The project contains an example that leverages the camera extension to create an augmented reality experience:

Note: The camera extension currently doesn't support Android which means that the Android example will use a static background instead of the camera feed.