Here's something I've been struggling with for some time. I've got a function that, when passed 5 args (x, y, z, pan, tilt) it smoothly moves the camera to that position. X, Y, Z and Tilt were easy, assuming you're never looking upside down. I did those by dividing the remaining distance to the goal by the original distance to the goal, multiplying by 180, and using the sin as a velocity factor in each cycle.

The hard part is doing something like this with the pan. The difficulty arises from the fact that 359 and 1 are actually closer than they would mathematically seem... I need it to detect which direction (left vs right) it should be turning based on how "far away" the final pan is from the current pan.

Any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated!

Simply use ang(camera.pan).

Awesome - this function is incredibly useful for this sort of thing! I had a big ugly pile of if statements to try to determine the direction that should be used, but they didn't even work properly.

Hm.. Actually, it turns out I must have implemented this improperly. Are you able to give me an example of how this function should be used to shift the camera from its current pan to a given pan?

Hm the function "ang()" simply returns the shifted camera angle, have you checked the manual already?

camera.pan = ang(camera.pan); //now camera.pan is between -180...180

You can use the following code to smoothly turn the camera to your target angle:
camera.pan += ang(target_pan - camera.pan)/2*time_step;

Thanks - I had checked the manual, I just hadn't made the connection of how to use this shift to move the camera in the proper direction. This seems to work perfectly.