I want to flip the camera

[Teelo]

I want to have the game be viewed from the top down, instead of the way it is. So essentially, I want to be able to trigger the rotation of the game, for a player.
I tried using rotate camera around a point, but it just fixes the camera on that point. I want the camera to be freely moved around as normal, just viewing the game from the other direction.

 

[PurgeandFire]

Ehh, I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean viewing literally from the opposite direction? (where 90 degrees is the normal rotation and 270 is the opposite)

call SetCameraField(CAMERA_FIELD_ROTATION,270,3) //example

It will still be movable while it rotates.

Or are you looking for something else?

 

[Pharaoh_]

If I got it right, you want something like this:



I know you want Jass, but this is a GUI example:

• Trigger1
• Events
  • Unit - A unit starts the effect of an ability
• Conditions
• Actions
  • Player Group - Add (Owner of (Triggering unit)) to Temp_Force
  • Trigger - Turn on Trigger <gen>

• Trigger
• Events
  • Time - Every 0.03 seconds of game-time
• Conditions
• Actions
  • Player Group - Pick every player in Temp_Force and do (Actions)
    • Loop - Actions
      • Set CameraRotation[Player Number of (Picked Player)] = (CameraRotation[Player Number of (Picked Player)] + 3.00)
      • Camera - Set (Picked Player)'s camera Rotation to (CameraRotation[Player Number of (Picked Player)]) over 0.00 seconds

 

[Teelo]

Ehh, I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean viewing literally from the opposite direction? (where 90 degrees is the normal rotation and 270 is the opposite)

call SetCameraField(CAMERA_FIELD_ROTATION,270,3) //example

It will still be movable while it rotates.

Or are you looking for something else?

Hmm. Yeah. Thats it exactly. Cool.

Um. Any way to make the minimap rotate with it? And any way to make the camera just 'snap' to the direction, instead of the slow rotation it does?

 

[PurgeandFire]

call SetCameraField(CAMERA_FIELD_ROTATION,270,0)
//The 0 part is the duration. It will snap if it is 0, it is measured in seconds

I don't think you can modify the minimap rotation though, sadly. =(

 

[Teelo]

Damn.

Thanks though!

Edit: Ughh, if I spin my scroll wheel, it flips the camera back again

 

[PurgeandFire]

Damn.

Thanks though!

Edit: Ughh, if I spin my scroll wheel, it flips the camera back again

Use a periodic timer/event to set the rotation to 270 constantly. If you need to be able to disable it, you can just use a global boolean. Just run a check for setting the rotation and set the boolean to false if you ever need to disable it.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Mouse wheel has to do with the Angle of Attack. So, constantly fix the Angle of Attack to a specified value too.