Moving camera around an object while attached to it

[Koni 1]

I am trying to attach a camera to a moving vehicle, which is the easy part, but want to be able to have the camera while still attached to it move around the vehicle to another angle in a slow transition, which is the hard part :(

I am using

_cam camsettarget car1;

_cam cameraeffect ["internal", "back"];

_cam attachTo [car1, [0,+5,0]];

_cam camSetFov 0.7;

sleep 5;

_cam camsettarget car1;

_cam cameraeffect ["internal", "back"];

_cam attachTo [car1, [5,+3,0]];

_cam camSetFov 0.7;

_camera camCommitPrepared 4;

waitUntil {camCommitted _camera};

sleep 8;

That keeps the cam on the car for 5 seconds, but it just flicks to the other angle.

How do you move to another angle but in a propper slow transition and not just instantly ?

Thanks

Edited July 5, 2011 by Koni

[CarlGustaffa 3]

I'm no camera expert, but I notice you do _camera camCommitPrepared without using any prepared data, not that I have any idea what that's about. Doesn't a normal camCommit work?

[Koni 1]

I'm no camera scripting guru either, just been chopping and changing things around seeing if they will work, though as far as I am aware, the

_camera camCommitPrepared 4

sould be the duration it takes to go from the previous shot to the new one.

[CarlGustaffa 3]

See the example on camCommitPrepared. But you are using the normal commands rather than the prepare commands. Like camSetTarget where (I believe) you should have used camPrepareTarget? I don't know. Guessing wildly here. Never understood the prepare variants so I just use the normal ones for everything.

[Koni 1]

I think once the cam is attached to a moving object it becomes static\locked on that position, not sure if what I want to do is possible :confused:

[CarlGustaffa 3]

Oh now I see. Sorry I completely overlooked the attach part (shame on me). While I've never tried cameras, I'm able to move attached triggers simply by keep reattaching them (updating the position array), as I use that method to control "volume" on sound triggers (since we don't have dynamic volume control). You probably have to make some clever math and/or for loops to get nice smoothness.