Camera follow terrain ?

[strike277 0]

How do I make a camera follow the terrain? In the start of the game it shows the camera moving over the water towards the island. How can I do this?

thanks

[zaphod 0]

place empty (invisible) markers the cam should follow, and animate the cam sequence from marker to marker...

[strike277 0]

Thanks for the reply. How do I animate the sequence? Not sure how to do that.

thanks

[strike277 0]

useCamera = true

_c = "camera" camCreate getPos mk_start

_cam camSetPos [getMarkerPos "mk_start" select 0, getMarkerPos "mk_start" select 1, 20];

_cam camSetTarget [getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 0, getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 1, 20];

_cam camCommit 0;

_cam camSetPos [getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 0, getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 1, 20];

_cam camCommit 30;

sleep 25;

camDestroy _c

This is the code I tried to use, but it gave me an error with the sleep 25; init. I took it out, got no error, but no camera either. I set up two game logic markers and named one mk_start and the other mk_end.

Sorry, but i'm a newbie at this if ya cant tell.

[TRexian 0]

Try with a semicolon ";" after the camdestroy command.

(It is like PASCAL. "Place A SemiColon All Locations.")

[zaphod 0]

you create a camera _c, but you go on with _cam later ...

this mustn't happen

and yes, don't forget semikolons at end of terms;

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

_cam="camera" camCreate getPos mk_start;

_cam camSetPos [getMarkerPos "mk_start" select 0, getMarkerPos "mk_start" select 1, 20];

_cam camSetTarget [getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 0, getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 1, 20];

_cam camCommit 0;

_cam camSetPos [getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 0, getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 1, 20];

_cam camCommit 30;

sleep 30;

camDestroy _cam;

[strike277 0]

Still getting an error on the sleep command. |#sleep 30;| Generic error in command. code I'm using below.

Quote[/b] ]useCamera = true

_cam="camera" camCreate getPos mk_start;

_cam camSetPos [getMarkerPos "mk_start" select 0, getMarkerPos "mk_start" select 1, 20];

_cam camSetTarget [getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 0, getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 1, 20];

_cam camCommit 0;

_cam camSetPos [getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 0, getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 1, 20];

_cam camCommit 30;

sleep 30;

camDestroy _cam;

[Lou Montana 101]

sleep is used in sqf scripts. if you're using sqs, use instead ~30

[strike277 0]

I changed the sleep 30 to ~30. Got the same error. Not even close to sure whats going on.

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">useCamera = true

_cam="camera" camCreate getPos mk_start;

_cam camSetPos [getMarkerPos "mk_start" select 0, getMarkerPos "mk_start" select 1, 20];

_cam camSetTarget [getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 0, getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 1, 20];

_cam camCommit 0;

_cam camSetPos [getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 0, getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 1, 20];

_cam camCommit 30;

~ 30;

camDestroy _cam;

[strike277 0]

May be I'm focusing on the wrong thing here. As stated I'm using the above listed code. I get the |#30| generic error upon it loading in. I does not go to cam view, but first person. Along with the code I've set down two markers mk_start and mk_end as well as a game logic with the exec command for the script.

Am I missing something?

[strike277 0]

Any one?

[d3nn16 3]

maybe remove the semicolon after ~30 ?

[=Odin= 0]

Try adding this the line before camdestroy

Quote[/b] ]cameraEffect ["Terminate", "Back"]

so it should look like this

Quote[/b] ]useCamera = true

_cam="camera" camCreate getPos mk_start;

_cam camSetPos [getMarkerPos "mk_start" select 0, getMarkerPos "mk_start" select 1, 20];

_cam camSetTarget [getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 0, getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 1, 20];

_cam camCommit 0;

_cam camSetPos [getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 0, getMarkerPos "mk_end" select 1, 20];

_cam camCommit 30;

~ 30;

cameraEffect ["Terminate", "Back"];

camDestroy _cam;

Hope it helps

[strike277 0]

It still does'nt work,Same error using the script provided.

[zolop 0]

If I could offer advice I would, but I also need help making this kind of script except locking onto the target but animating the camera to move around the object.

So I bump this because it will also help me to create my camera script.

[kronzky 5]

It still does'nt work,Same error using the script provided.

There's also a semicolon missing in the first line: useCamera = true