Video Creation - Follow Turret of Vehicle

[Jetrise 76]

Hello All,

 

I'm doing some video editing for upcoming content being released, however, I wanted to know if it was possible to follow the turret of a vehicle as it turns? See video below from a game called Squad that does it in one of their videos.

 

 

I didn't know where to post this, so I hope this is the right place!

 

Thanks,

 

Jet. 

 

[stanhope 409]

It's possible, you could use weaponDirection in combination with camCreate and the alternate syntax of getPos.  Poor all of that into a eachFrame event-handler and you should be able to recreate that video.

(To get the weapon dir of an MBT in degrees instead of in x,y,z format use:

private _weaponDir = _targetVehicle weaponDirection ((_targetVehicle weaponsTurret [0]) select 0);
private _weaponDeg = (_weaponDir select 0) atan2 (_weaponDir select 1);

with _weaponDeg being the direction in degrees.)

 

There'll probably be other ways to do this that may be easier or more efficient, this is just what I can think of atm.