[JASS] Camera Locked behind a unit

[Deep Sea Kraken]

I searched for this and didnt find it. I want to have the camera be locked behind a unit and turns when the unit turns. I've tried like 10-15 different things in the edditor and none of them work. Any ideas? And I'm using GUI not jass.

 

[Illidan(Evil)X]

I believe something like this will work as you want.
Just change the periodic event time to your liking.

• CameraMovement
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.05 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
    • YourUnit Not equal to No unit
  • Actions
    • Camera - Set Player 1 (Red)'s camera Rotation to (Facing of YourUnit) over 0.05 seconds
    • Camera - Lock camera target for Player 1 (Red) to YourUnit, offset by (0.00, 0.00) using Default rotation

 

[Rui]

I don't recommend lower than 0.50, because 0.05 means the trigger runs 12 times every second. You don't need such a low time anyway.

 

[paskovich]

You have to lock the camera only once.
Note that this will not check the terrain height, so your unit may disappear from the screen if the terrain is too high or too low...

 

[HappyTauren]

but there are calculations to get terrain height.

local location l = GetUnitLoc(FollowedUnit)
local location l2 = PolarProjectionBJ(l,180,GEtCameraField(CAMERA_FIELD_TARGET_DISTANCE))
local real r = GetLocationZ(l) - GetLocationZ(l2)
call SetCameraField(CAMERA_FIELD_ZOFFSET, e,0.2)
set r = 0
call RemoveLocation(l)
call RemoveLocation(l2)

 

[Deep Sea Kraken]

Happy Tauren, thats jass not GUI. I dont use jass or custom scripts. And lol, I dont think it will drop below the terrain because it locks the camera to the unit's feet, so on the offset (X,Y) set the Y value to be like 50 or so and you should get something above the unit.

 

[HappyTauren]

nope you will find it wil lfuck up ur camera

 

[Deep Sea Kraken]

Damn you and your rightlyness happy tauren. So how exactley do i make that work? What do i put do get it to do the cameras for each player. Heres the trigger so far:

• Cameras
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.01 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • If (bPlayerDead[1] Equal to False) then do (Camera - Lock camera target for Player 1 (Red) to Player1, offset by (0.00, 50.00) using Default rotation) else do (Do nothing)
    • If (bPlayerDead[2] Equal to False) then do (Camera - Lock camera target for Player 2 (Blue) to Player2, offset by (0.00, 50.00) using Default rotation) else do (Do nothing)
    • If (bPlayerDead[6] Equal to False) then do (Camera - Lock camera target for Player 6 (Orange) to Player6, offset by (0.00, 50.00) using Default rotation) else do (Do nothing)
    • If (bPlayerDead[7] Equal to False) then do (Camera - Lock camera target for Player 7 (Green) to Player7, offset by (0.00, 50.00) using Default rotation) else do (Do nothing)
    • Camera - Set Player 1 (Red)'s camera Rotation to (Facing of Player1) over 0.05 seconds
    • Camera - Set Player 2 (Blue)'s camera Rotation to (Facing of Player2) over 0.05 seconds
    • Camera - Set Player 6 (Orange)'s camera Rotation to (Facing of Player6) over 0.05 seconds
    • Camera - Set Player 7 (Green)'s camera Rotation to (Facing of Player7) over 0.05 seconds

The Player[#] is the unit that it gets locked too.
So how do i make your think work Tauren?

 

[HappyTauren]

hey, do you want to learn jass? just wodering... do you want me to make this system for you in jass?

What i want u to do is impossible without jass... so...

 

[Dr Super Good]

This is not possiable in GUI, HappyTauren is right so use his system (learn jass) or drop the idea of camera behind a unit. I recommend looking in the tutorials sections for jass knowledge or asking in the jass fourm (only if you really are not understanding a part of jass), they are both good places to go. Thats how most people here learned jass.

 

[CoolSoFar]

Before you do this please make sure with your terrain, camera system like this always have an almighty problem that cant solved (if you the maker you will think ratter be died), you can see this even at Nature's Call RotD...

The goblin maze, when you step wrong and move in bad position all of the monitor are closed by wall... Can you keep plat with it?

 

[Deep Sea Kraken]

Hmm. Well im modifying the Warchasers map made by blizzard (trying to make it more interesting) and the cam lock they have is terrible, so im trying to make the cam better. And ive changed the heros (have them making sense now).

I'm not that great with that kind of coding though.

Well HappyTauren if its not too much trouble could you do it? Ill send the map to you or post.

 

[HappyTauren]

nope, you just need to tell me what you actually want. There are many versions of camera lock behind a unit. it is simple jass

 

[Dr Super Good]

Yes it is simple jass but this is the GUI section, please do not talk jass here.

 

[Deep Sea Kraken]

Well what I would like is the camera is locked behind and slightly over the unit's head, looking at a slight downward angle so the player can cast spells on melee units attacking him.

And I appologise Dr Super Good, but it seems a bit ludicrous to open a new thread doesn't it?

 

[HappyTauren]

that over unit's head wont do. It needs to be farther....

 

[Deep Sea Kraken]

Lol i mean like over the units head and BEHIND the unit, so you can get him to turn around if you hit a wall, and angled down as i said.

 

[CoolSoFar]

How much angled down?? Make sure you not make it too much down coz I remember if War Chasers have a hundred of walls and once the walls block your sight you can control your hero, all you can do is 'restart game'

 

[Deep Sea Kraken]

Hmm. You do have a point there, so what I'll do is add a command (like -turn) that will make your hero turn to face a random angle.

 

[CoolSoFar]

When the camera stuck your heroes does it will automatically or you must write unstuck?? Fell good you take point from my opinion

 

[HappyTauren]

dont you see wc3 is crappy engine? third person cant be implemented that easilly:

1. terrain has to be very flat
2. game lags due to extended farZ
3. it is unusable in multiplayer games
4. lags like hell

 

[CoolSoFar]

That's a reason why he ask us a help, so what you must to do is:
1.Make it not flat anymore, do the best you can
2.farZ make problem? reduce your sight range make you only see nearby and cause system didn't read unit outside your sight, might reduce lags slightly
3.Why it's unusable? all MMO-RPG game use camera like this, not bad to do this in war3 maps
4.Like i said at 2, reduce sight range to 600(smaller is better).. Make lag reduced


HappyTauren please don't crush his dream with your 4 reason, the number 4 is as the same as number 2 so you must make it simpler. ONLY 3 REASON

 

[HappyTauren]

okay then. There are only 2 way now:

1. Doctor Super Good moves this to jass section
2. Deep Sea Kraken forgets that idea

satisfied?

 

[CoolSoFar]

Satisfied devastatingly, anyway I afraid if you feel my post have a little of offensive mean... I am sorry if you feel so

 

[HappyTauren]

Satisfied devastatingly, anyway I afraid if you feel my post have a little of offensive mean... I am sorry if you feel so

nope. .

 

[Dr Super Good]

WC3 game engine IS NOT TES:Oblivion. It is not made to handle distent LOD and even with low sightrange distant doodads are still rendered resulting in lag on well teraned maps with cards weaker than a Nveda 7800 GS. Also due to delay and bad syncro in multiplayers the camera is always delayed and you can not use the keyboard and mouse like you can do in oblivion and other good rpgs. Most games like FPS do the camera unsyncronized from other players so you can look at a direction before your animation updates to other people to show you looking in that direction. In wc3 the cameras have to be syncronized or else it would split. If you wat good FPS systems move to moding TES: Oblivion since there, the graphich card is your limates and that is hardly very limated. Since this topic was started in GUI and Deep Sea Kraken probably does not no jass, this is staying here untill he confirms he wants it moved to the jass section.

 

[Deep Sea Kraken]

Hmm. Well if it will get HappyTauren to help me, could you please move it? and ty Dr Super Good.

@HappyTauren heres my response to your 4 points:
1)if youll help me with jass, that wont be a problem.
2)Shorten sight radius And I dont want the camera staring straight ahead, more like a downward angle of 10-20
3)Ive seen it in a Multi-player game, and there were different hight levels
4)One way to reduce lag is to set the point value for all units that are used to 0, that heavily reduces lag.

If it helps, each player has their own idividual camera.

 

[Deep Sea Kraken]

Hmm. Ok now that its in the Jass section ill post it:

And HappyTauren, take as much time as you need (im not in a hurry) and your also helping me with something else ><.

Ty for moving this Dr Super Good.

 

[HappyTauren]

okay. Basic idea of system is that it locks camera view behind a unit. Then, if there are many heights, it will need to calculate FarZ. Then it will change AoA in order tp make sight viewable (calculates z of the point where is camera start and where is camera end) And then it makes AoA sway as there is differance in heights.

BUT

Not all heights can be calculated. Stupid wc3 engine wont calculte low height if it is around many high heights. That will be buggy. I will have to make calculation which would tone this problem down and make it as less noticable as possiable. I will post this soon, i alrady made system like that a time ago. Also, do you want unit to be moveable with keyboard? and Is this singleplayer map?

 

[Deep Sea Kraken]

Lol, ok Warchaser is a custom game made by blizzard, it has 4 players, and with the keyboard movement, if its simple to do and you think it will improve the general gameplay, maybe make it so the players can vote, or host can chose?