Camera Help!

[Shamwow]

Im trying to make a 3rd person camera that is fixed behind the controlled character but im completely lost with the whole camera thing, so if anyone can show me a trigger for it or point me in the right direction to find out how id really appreciate it

 

[AK-]

Need camera ???

The easiest way to make a 3rd person camera is as the following


Create a new camera and new unit (for camera to follow) and position the camera in a desirable place behind your new unit.


now enter the trigger editor and make a new trigger that looks like the following


//========================================================

Events
Time - every 0.01 seconds of game time
Conditions
(none)
Actions
Camera - apply ( THE CAMERA YOU CREATED ) <gen> for ( PLAYER OF CHOICE ) over 0.00 seconds
Camera - Lock camera target for ( PLAYER OF CHOICE ) to (UNIT OF CHOICE) <gen>, offset by (0.00, 0.00) using the units rotation
Camera - Set (PLAYER OF CHOICE) camera Rotation to (facing of UNIT OF CHOICE <gen> ) over 0.00 seconds

//========================================================

This is a relatively simple 3RD person camera, though you can add delays and things on to the script with ease

 

[satient]

Okay. 0.01 game time is effective, but not necessary. Create two triggers, one called "Initialization" and one called "Player's Camera".

Initialization:

• Events - Map Initialization
• Conditions -
• Actions - start (Your Timer) as a repeating timer that will expire in 0.10 seconds

Now for Player's Camera:

• Events - (Your Timer) expires
• Conditions - if(YourUnit) is alive = true
• Actions - Pick Every Player in All Players and do actions:
  • Lock Picked Player's Camera to (Their unit)
  • Set Picked Player's Distance to Target to 700
  • Set Picked Player's Angle of Attack to 340 over 0.5 seconds
  • Set Picked Player's Camera Rotation to (Facing of (Your Unit)) over 0.25 seconds

The problem with this is that the camera won't up and down with your unit. So create a "real" variable, not array, named Z_Unit and a "point" variable, not array, named Position_Unit

Now change your Player's Camera trigger to this:

• Events - (Your Timer) expires
• Conditions - if(YourUnit) is alive = true
• Actions - Pick Every Player in All Players and do actions:
  • Set Position_Unit = (Position of (Your Unit))
  • Custom script: set udg_Z_Unit=GetLocationZ(udg_Position_Unit)
  • Lock Picked Player's Camera to (Their unit)
  • Set Picked Player's Distance to Target to 700
  • Set Picked Player's Angle of Attack to 340 over 0.5 seconds
  • Set Picked Player's Camera Rotation to (Facing of (Your Unit)) over 0.25 seconds
  • Set Picked Player's Height offset to 100 + Z_Unit over 0.25 seconds.
  • Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_Position_Unit)

Now you have a fully operational 3rd person camera. To make it a first person, just set the Distance to target to zero and set the field of view to 30.

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[Aesthetics]

Wrong section.