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COG camera position

2006-04-09, 5:31 AM #1

Ortheza

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Posts: 102

I need 1-st person camera be liitle higher
Can someone write simple cog code for this?
Or there is another, simpler way ?

please help

Ortheza

-= Jedi Knight I forever =-

2006-04-09, 12:26 PM #2

darthslaw

Darth Slaw

Posts: 3,490

ParseArg(player, "eyeoffset=(0.0/0.0/0.037)");

Change the 0.037 to whatever distance z you want the camera to be from the player's position handle. (0.037 is the default -- 0.037 JKU above kyle's "center of mass")

May the mass times acceleration be with you.

2006-04-10, 6:04 AM #3

Ortheza

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Posts: 102

Thanx man :-) I'm going to test this.

-= Jedi Knight I forever =-

2006-04-10, 10:54 AM #4

Ortheza

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Posts: 102

oK, now another question.
how to bring 3rd person camera to the center of the player's head.

please help again

greetz
Ortheza

-= Jedi Knight I forever =-

2006-04-10, 4:14 PM #5

darthslaw

Darth Slaw

Posts: 3,490

The third person camera is tricky, because it rotates about the eye offset in some set fashion (or something like that -- see goldeneye mod for example and switch to external view when you've zoomed in with one of the rifles).

One thing you could do is fire a dummy camera for external...

Code:

pulse:
if(getCurrentCamera() == 1)
{
	toggle = 1 - toggle;
	if(toggle == 0)      //external
	{
		vec = VectorSet(0, 0, 0.4);                    //where to fire the camera template, relative to player and his lookvector
		cam = FireProjectile(player, cam_tpl, -1, -1, vec, '0 0 0', 0, 0, 0, 0);
		SetCameraFocus(0, cam);
	}
	else                 //internal
	{
		ParseArg(player, "eyeoffset=(0.0/0.0/0.04)");  //slightly higher; e.g. - for a tall person
	}
	CycleCamera();
}
return;

Something like that ought to work.

May the mass times acceleration be with you.