Camera Moves Down Cliff With Hero

[Ashkandi]

I am using a third person camera in my map. The camera moves up, at least a little bit, when moving uphill, but when I move downhill the camera stays where it is. I tried searching for camera tutorials but couldn't find any that work in this way.

 

[D0W3R]

You have to make regions on side cliffs witch would move up your camera, it's an only way to fix that...

 

[kleinerhauck]

Regions for every cliff? Have fun ;-)
You can easily get the terrain height and the cliff height with triggers.

• Set P = (Position of unit)
• Custom script: set udg_Terrain_Height = GetLocationZ(udg_P)
• Set Cliff_Height = (Terrain cliff level at P)
• Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_P)

Now do the same thing with some points around the unit, or maybe better: save the previous cliff/terrain height in a hashtable with the unit's key.
Then you know whether it is moving upwards/downwards and can adjust the camera accordingly.

PS: Using the terrain height should be sufficient for this, as higher cliffs also have a higher terrain Z.

 

[Ashkandi]

Regions for every cliff? Have fun ;-)
You can easily get the terrain height and the cliff height with triggers.

• Set P = (Position of unit)
• Custom script: set udg_Terrain_Height = GetLocationZ(udg_P)
• Set Cliff_Height = (Terrain cliff level at P)
• Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_P)

Now do the same thing with some points around the unit, or maybe better: save the previous cliff/terrain height in a hashtable with the unit's key.
Then you know whether it is moving upwards/downwards and can adjust the camera accordingly.

PS: Using the terrain height should be sufficient for this, as higher cliffs also have a higher terrain Z.

Thanks, this was helpful