Semi-locked on camera: Is it possible?

[jopi]

Simply out of curiosity, do you think it's possible in wc3 to make a system, that allows to move the player camera freely, as long as the unit it is 'locked on' to is within the camera bounds (field of view)? So when the unit stands still and you move away with the camera the movement will stop, once the unit is about to leave the camera bounds, you can only move the camera closer to the unit but not further away.

I hope you get what I mean.

 

[rulerofiron99]

Yes, it just gets a bit iffy when you're moving the camera while the unit's at the edge.

It can be done very simply by comparing the player's camera target with a region of some sort, but that wouldn't be 100% accurate, you'd need to do the math to calculate if it is in the actual field of view.

 

[IcemanBo]

I guess you want it to be MPI, then you can take usage of this cool system: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/lab-715/observermode-playercameradata-244987/