Smooth camera

[gc8 981]

Hi

I am trying to create a camera that follows helicopter maybe in third person style. But haven't been able to figure how to make the camera to follow the helo smoothly. Can some one help?

 

Here's my camera code which is quite poor, I have tried different settings with it without satisfying result:

 

private _man = vehicle player; // Tried vehicle here

showCinemaBorder false;

_cpos = getpos _man;
_cam = "camera" camCreate _cpos;
_cam camSetTarget _man;

_cam camSetRelPos [2, 2, 2];

_cam cameraEffect ["internal", "BACK"];

_cam camCommit 0;

helocam = _cam;

[_cam,_man] spawn 
{
params ["_cam","_man"];
while { !isnull helocam } do
{
//_cam camSetPos (getpos _man);
_cam camSetRelPos [2, 2, 2];
_cam camCommit 2;
sleep 0.5;
};
};

 

thx!

[Mr H. 402]

Use attachTo command to attach the cam to its target

[gc8 981]

Ok I tried that but I get a lot of camera jitter

[Harzach 2518]

Maybe try visibleposition/visiblePositionASL instead of getPos?

 

You'll want to lose that sleep, though.

[gc8 981]

7 minutes ago, Harzach said:

Maybe try visibleposition/visiblePositionASL instead of getPos?

 

With

 

_cam camSetPos (visiblePosition _man);

 

There's also jitter

[Grumpy Old Man 3549]

2 hours ago, gc8 said:

 

With

 

_cam camSetPos (visiblePosition _man);

 

There's also jitter

Because you're setting the camera position every 0.5 seconds, of course it's not gonna look good.

Try using an eachFrame eventhandler to set the camera position.

 

Cheers

[Harzach 2518]

As I said, lose that sleep. I did fail to mention that it works best with onEachFrame or an EachFrame EH, as GOM says.

[MKD3 27]

@gc8 Attach the camera to the helicopter, set the cameras target as the pilot or a unit within the helicopter.

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[gc8 981]

Ok got it working. thx

[Grumpy Old Man 3549]

3 hours ago, gc8 said:

Ok got it working. thx

Always nice to post your final solution, so others might benefit instead of opening another thread to the same/similar problem.

 

Cheers

[gc8 981]

Yeah I think this is all you need for the camera (It's not perfect but shows how to do it)

 

showCinemaBorder false;

_cpos = getpos _helo;
_cam = "camera" camCreate _cpos;

_cam camSetTarget (driver _helo);

_cam camSetRelPos [0, -5, 7.5];

_cam cameraEffect ["internal", "BACK"];

_cam camCommit 0;

_cam attachTo [_helo];

 

_heli variable must be defined somewhere