[Trigger] Camera System Height Help?!

[A-Mexican-Taco]

Okay so i have tested my Camera system that i am making and so far everything works about perfectly (Having a bit of trouble with the turning as it is a first and third person system which means it takes forever to turn regularly, i devised a somewhat assisted turning but the camera can become messed up when the unit auto acquires a target (if anyone knows how to turn off the auto targeting on a unit, you would help me so much!)). Anyways the problem lies with when the unit goes up on a hill, the camera height doesn't change, it goes through the hill and catches up with the unit on the other side. Or when the unit goes down into a river or canyon, the camera stays on top of the canyon until the unit exits the other side and catches up with the unit. Is there any way to make it so the camera height automatically adjusts to the current height of the unit? I will show my trigger below as well as the trigger for assisted turning.

(This camera system is based off of a camera system i found in the spell section, just i made it into a third person camera and chopped it up so that it actually shows the hands and weapon of the unit).

• Cameras
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.01 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • RedCamStat Equal to 1
      • Then - Actions
        • Camera - Set Player 1 (Red)'s camera Distance to target to 75.00 over 0.00 seconds
        • Camera - Set Player 1 (Red)'s camera Angle of attack to 350.00 over 0.00 seconds
        • Camera - Set Player 1 (Red)'s camera Rotation to (Facing of (Load 1 of 5 in UnitTracker)) over 0.50 seconds
        • Camera - Set Player 1 (Red)'s camera Height Offset to 80.00 over 0.00 seconds
        • Camera - Pan camera for Player 1 (Red) to ((Position of (Load 1 of 5 in UnitTracker)) offset by 35.00 towards (Facing of (Load 1 of 5 in UnitTracker)) degrees) over 0.00 seconds
      • Else - Actions
        • Do nothing
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • RedCamStat Equal to 2
      • Then - Actions
        • Camera - Set Player 1 (Red)'s camera Distance to target to 75.00 over 0.00 seconds
        • Camera - Set Player 1 (Red)'s camera Angle of attack to 350.00 over 0.00 seconds
        • Camera - Set Player 1 (Red)'s camera Rotation to (Facing of (Load 1 of 5 in UnitTracker)) over 0.50 seconds
        • Camera - Set Player 1 (Red)'s camera Height Offset to 80.00 over 0.00 seconds
        • Camera - Pan camera for Player 1 (Red) to ((Position of (Load 1 of 5 in UnitTracker)) offset by -100.00 towards (Facing of (Load 1 of 5 in UnitTracker)) degrees) over 0.00 seconds
      • Else - Actions
        • Do nothing

 

[Pharaoh_]

You need GetLocationZ() function to add with the height offset:

• Set Pt1 = (Position of Unit)
• Custom script: set udg_RealVariable = GetLocationZ (udg_Pt1)
• Camera - Set Player 1 (Red)'s camera Height Offset to (RealVariable + 80.00) over 0.00 seconds
• Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_Pt1)

Take care of your leaks.
Prefer an approved system from the Spells section.

 

[A-Mexican-Taco]

I don't do the whole JASS thing and thats the only camera systems in the spells section, and they don't suit the need of first person, third person or regular game camera. Also might i ask what the real variable is?

 

[Pharaoh_]

A real variable

 

[A-Mexican-Taco]

The custom scripts crashed the editor

 

[Pharaoh_]

Send me the map if you want, I will implement it myself.

 

[A-Mexican-Taco]

It would be welcomed and greatly appreciated

 

[A-Mexican-Taco]

Okay, so now I cannot open the map, the custom scripts seemed to have done something. It says the level info is invalid or data is missing.

 

[Pharaoh_]

A simple custom script can't have crashed your map. A bugged model/texture can. Go to your Test Map folder in your Wacraft III directory and retrieve the latest version of it. Save it somewhere else too, just in case, and send me one copy of it.

 

[A-Mexican-Taco]

There was only one version, and all the models worked fine, i haven't added any since i started the triggers two days ago. And for some reason when i try to upload the map, it doesn't show it in the directory, it shows all the other maps except that one.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Each time you test a map from the World Editor, it creates a back up file, saved in the Test Map folder, usually named as TestMap.w3x, unless you changed your preferences from the File menu. If this map was the last to test, then there still is a copy in there. Copy and paste that file.

Like I said, a custom script can't crash the file by opening it in the world editor.

 

[A-Mexican-Taco]

I don't use the test button, i simply save it under my own folder in wc3 and open tft and play it as i don't like the full screen mode so i window wc3 and when i use the test button, it creates a fullscreen mode. so there is no back up

 

[A-Mexican-Taco]

Oh well, it was just a simple mini game anyways haha. But Pharaoh, would you mind implementing the system on another map of mine?

 

[Pharaoh_]

I will send you a map with this script to prove you that there is nothing wrong with it

Edit: I really am sorry that you lost your map, but it was not the script that caused this. By the way, this is not a model of a camera system, I'm just showing you the script in action.

 

[A-Mexican-Taco]

Okay yes, it works, and i am cutting your triggers up so that they work with my system, if you don't mind? And I am just testing my camera system now, that map took me only two days to make so it wasn't a biggy.