Isometric or towdown view?

[Cyper 18]

At the moment, its only possible to play arma 3 in 1st person or 3rd person.

I would like to create missions that are being played in isometric or top-down perspective. Is this possible?

[killzone_kid 1330]

Yes .

[Cyper 18]

That sounds great.. I have tried to Google, but not found anything to help me out to do it.

[bull_a 44]

Try looking at this command group: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/camCreate

I can remember is you can make the player move whilst you are in a different camera (something for you to test/find out). If you cant, and im just spit balling (Im guessing someone is going to tell me it can't be done) but I believe that when you play in either first person or third person you use a camera object. Try finding the camera id/object/whatever and use this to re-position the camera above the player.

Failing that you could always use a config modification. Have a look here: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?149911-Deadfast-s-Third-Person-View-for-ARMA-3

You could ask the author what he did an try to replicate the same condition but editing the camera axis to make it a more "top-down" view.

Hope that points you in the right direction

Bull

[killzone_kid 1330]

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[Cyper 18]

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Wow!

Thank you so much. This was exactly what I was looking for!

The only thing I now have to figure out is to make it possible to actually fire weapons. Because with that script the player can aim with the weapon, but its not possible to fire or reload, and there is no crosshair.

Edited May 16, 2015 by Cyper

[ASafe 0]

How do I use that killzone_kid? is it a .sqf file?

[HazJ 1289]

See note by comment @killzone_kid on Wiki.

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/switchCamera

[ASafe 0]

yes thanks HazJ but where do I put that stuff and how do I call it in the game? I mean is it a .sqf file, description file?

[EO 11275]

1 hour ago, ASafe said:

yes thanks HazJ but where do I put that stuff and how do I call it in the game? I mean is it a .sqf file, description file?

 

Paste the code into the debug console, execute the code by pressing "LOCAL EXEC". 

   

[pierremgi 4850]

I don't know why I have to copy, paste (and submit reply) this code to make it clearer, without an bunch of color="#8B3E2F" b }/b /color color="#8B3E2F" b + all []

 

 

[ASafe 0]

Wow thanks guys it worked. is it a way to make the cross aim to appear or even better go in first view aiming camera when I press right mouse bottom?

[ASafe 0]

16 hours ago, EO said:

 

Paste the code into the debug console, execute the code by pressing "LOCAL EXEC".  

   

Wow, thanks m8! is it possible to enable the crosshair of the weapon or/and to go to weapon aim firstview camera when pressing the right mouse botton and how to enable this camera for when driving a car or something, is it possible to control the camera vertically using the middle mouse botton?

[ASafe 0]

cant interact with stuff, open close doors, inventory ect...

[ASafe 0]

what I need in little words is to be able to have all the functions as in normal camera but on "top-down" view camera.

[Grumpy Old Man 3545]

1 hour ago, ASafe said:

what I need in little words is to be able to have all the functions as in normal camera but on "top-down" view camera.

There is, it's a little weird though, might still do what you need.

1. Place a unit that will serve as camera, set it as player, name it cameraUnit (in case you need to switch back)
2. Place another unit you wish to control
3. Run this:

player remotecontrol remoteunit

 

Might also work with spawning a camera first, then using remoteControl.

Then you'd need most likely an eachFrame eventhandler to keep the camera hovering above the remote controlled unit.

 

Weird thing is even though you control the remoteunit, when using the fire button the camera unit will shoot, so depending on what you want to do this might cause issues.

Talk about programming patterns, huh?

 

 

Cheers

[ASafe 0]

25 minutes ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

There is, it's a little weird though, might still do what you need.

1. Place a unit that will serve as camera, set it as player, name it cameraUnit (in case you need to switch back)
2. Place another unit you wish to control
3. Run this:

player remotecontrol remoteunit

 

Might also work with spawning a camera first, then using remoteControl.

Then you'd need most likely an eachFrame eventhandler to keep the camera hovering above the remote controlled unit.

 

Weird thing is even though you control the remoteunit, when using the fire button the camera unit will shoot, so depending on what you want to do this might cause issues.

Talk about programming patterns, huh?

 

 

Cheers

Thanks, ill give it a try, see if I can modify it to my needs. Ill post a video later on so you can see what I mean...