Free Camera

[Deltahawk12 10]

Hey guys.

Ive been playing ARMA 2 for a few days now and I'm loving it, but one interest I have asides from video games are making videos including machinimas. Now I've seen people make videos like this

And

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oLx0i9YdZg

I've played around in the editor yet I have no clue as to how they are getting this free camera movement. Any help would be great, thanks!

[Murphe 0]

You simple add this line to the init field of your unit:

player exec "camera.sqs"

You can then press L to get rid of the cross.

Also use

player exec "camera.sqs"; showCinemaBorder false

to remove the border should want to.

The controls for the camera are list as Buldozer in the control options, so you can set it so you use a joystick for extra smooth movement.

Edited July 1, 2009 by Murphe

[Thirdup 0]

This little tutorial for the camera.sqs might help you out:

http://www.vimeo.com/1545959

[Deltahawk12 10]

Thank you both very much! Exactly what I was looking for!

[cartier90 0]

Is there a way to see everything in slo mo ?

[Murphe 0]

There is. The best way is to set up a trigger that is activated by using the radio with this in the init field:

setacctime 0.1

0.1 is an example where 1 would be normal speed. I'm not sure how slow you can make it actually but it's easy find out just keep adding a 0 after . untill it tells you won't work or the game crashes.

There is a problem with using this with the camera where if you use the mouse to look around it's incredibly sensitive and relativly unusable. But thats where a joystick is again very useful.

Edited July 1, 2009 by Murphe

[pooroldspike 128]

I gather you can't issue High Command orders while in freecam view, or am I missing something?