external cameras for observation only?

[jangles 10]

Hi,

Does anyone know if there are ways to use external cameras ingame? , I like to setup battles and just watch them unfold , would be nice to be able to do this with an external moveable camera of some sort.

thanks

--sorry , just noticed this is the wrong forum---

[sbsmac 0]

Depends what kind of observation you want. You can execVm "camera.sqs" in the init field of your unit for a completely free-floating camera (I may have got the syntax a bit wrong since I'm at work) or for a more personal look at the battle you can use a spectator script. There is one in the latest release of my script-pack.

This is very easy to use for the kind of SP spectating you want to do. Just copy the C&H example mission to your missions directory, add a Civilian player unit and set

isReferee=true;

in the initialisation field

Then add the AI units to set up the battle. When you hit preview you should immediately be in spectator mode.

This video gives an idea of what it looks like...

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[jangles 10]

this looks great , thanks!

[sbsmac 0]

Just to followup on my earlier post... If you just want a free roaming camera, then this page should help.. http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/camera.sqs

[Muecke 114]

This is very easy to use for the kind of SP spectating you want to do. Just copy the C&H example mission to your missions directory, add a Civilian player unit and set

isReferee=true;

in the initialisation field

Then add the AI units to set up the battle. When you hit preview you should immediately be in spectator mode.

iam trying to get this Spectatorscipt into my mission but it doesnt work.

could you do a small mission only with spectatorslot where i can see how to do ?

i guess iam pretty close to get it run but something is still wrong or missing.

i have Init and description and also the spectatorscript included.

Q helped me with the hpp file and it should work all well,but not :( !!!

sbsmac help would be verry nice....

regards

Muecke