Camera below terrain level

[JeffreyQ]

Camera - Turn Camera Mouse Rotation On/Off(1, On)
Camera - Lock Camera Mouse Relative Mode On/Off(1, On)

Doing this will make the camera look at where the mouse is pointing to. But if i push the mouse up, the camera will go below terrain, is there a way to fix this?

 

[Mille25]

just check in a periodic trigger if the camera pitch is < 5, if yes set it to 6. like this i made it.

i hate periodic triggers but as far i know its the only possibility, since there is no event that reacts on camera properties. the other possibility is the event "<player> moves the camera for <any>" but since all players are moving the camera all the time this might be even more bad for the performence then a periodic trigger.

 

[JeffreyQ]

May i know how i can set the pitch ? I can't find them in actions.

 

[Mille25]

May i know how i can set the pitch ? I can't find them in actions.

its a bit tricky.
you must create a camera object and then modify the "angle of attack".

 

[xXx-Tricky-xXx]

thats still not going to fix it from going underneath the ground...

what you have to do is form a right triangle using your AoA and the camera distance from your character. once you have the point found, you must get the camera height and then subtract the height of that point and then form a 2nd triangle using that and the distance to target. after that it should get you the angle you need for your AoA or pitch.

i dont know if you understood any of this... but you will need to know how sin cos and sin work and the sides of a triangle.

 

[Wezthal]

Incase you meant that the current Timer/PeriodicEvent minimum interval is too long:

If I remember correctly somewhere someone said that the minimum value of Wait(0.0) is lower than that of Timer(0.0) or PeriodicEvent(0.0). If that's true then how about doing like this.

Events
- Map Initialization
Actions
- Loop(Forever)
- - If (Player 1 camera pitch < 5) then
- - - Set Player 1 camera pitch to 6.
- - Endif
- - Wait(0.0)
- Endloop

 

[JeffreyQ]

Solved.

To all those who want to know how it works.. Here is my trigger:

• Minimum Height
  • Events
    • Timer - Every 0.1 seconds of Game Time
  • Local Variables
  • Conditions
    • Or
      • Conditions
        • (Camera Pitch of Player(1)) <= 5.0
        • (Camera Pitch of Player(1)) >= 300.0
  • Actions
    • Camera - Apply camera object Angle Of Attack 5.5 for player 1 over 0.5 seconds with Existing Velocity% initial velocity and 10% deceleration

Once below ground, the pitch of camera will be starting from 359. So detecting both side is needed just incase someone push the mouse up too fast. Also +Rep to Mille25 for hinting that angle of attack [:

 

[PSGMud]

Incase you meant that the current Timer/PeriodicEvent minimum interval is too long:

If I remember correctly somewhere someone said that the minimum value of Wait(0.0) is lower than that of Timer(0.0) or PeriodicEvent(0.0). If that's true then how about doing like this.

Events
- Map Initialization
Actions
- Loop(Forever)
- - If (Player 1 camera pitch < 5) then
- - - Set Player 1 camera pitch to 6.
- - Endif
- - Wait(0.0)
- Endloop

Wouldn't it be better just to set it at 5, with <= 5? You could also use the smooth camera for this I think.

I mean snapping isn't really a delightful thing to have going on.

 

[Bu113t]

What if you are running up a hill and you need to turn the angle down to see whats up the hill?

 

[Mille25]

i just found out that its possible to check terrain height at a specific point, that should make it possible to create a nearly perfect "anti underground" system