[General] How to deal with the cmera height?

[stan0033]

The camera in my map is custom, it's higher than the default, and when I scroll with the mouse then the camera becomes default. How can I control this?

 

[Chaosy]

you can't. But you can make a command to reset the camera.

 

[Anitarf]

You can also have a periodic trigger constantly reset the camera to the higher position, but this will completely disable the option of zooming in by scrolling.

 

[Chaosy]

That's quite inefficient, not that I think it'll impact today's computers too much but it's something you might want to take into consideration in a large map.

 

[DracoL1ch]

lol its nothing for ANY pc. you heavliy understimate wc3 perfomance

 

[Chaosy]

I will quote you on that in the upcoming 1000 "my map lags" thread.

Many small inefficient things will make a difference.

 

[BloodDrunk]

The camera in my map is custom, it's higher than the default, and when I scroll with the mouse then the camera becomes default. How can I control this?

As Anitarf suggested, set default camera distance and then use periodic trigger that will set camera distance to your default height for each player.
You will still be able to move the camera up down as you scroll with mouse. And for zooming part, you will have to make an array variables and dedicated trigger that will register triggering player that wrote some kind of command to change the zoom, as I have.

 

[DracoL1ch]

I will quote you on that in the upcoming 1000 "my map lags" thread.

Many small inefficient things will make a difference.

it IS efficient and the only way to do that. speed isn't a problem, people's stupidity is.

 

[Legal_Ease]

• Camera
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.07 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set temploc = (Position of unit)
    • Camera - Set Player 1 (Red)'s camera Rotation to (90.00 + ViewAngle) over 0.50 seconds
    • Camera - Set Player 1 (Red)'s camera Distance to target to 1270.00 over 0.50 seconds
    • Camera - Pan camera for Player 1 (Red) to temploc over 0.00 seconds
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_temploc)

I use this rather than lock camera because lock camera looks too ridged and disables minimap click-moving. I've noticed no lag, but with an 8 player map it might get slightly more burdensome.