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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: Turey on October 05, 2006, 10:33:45 pm

Title: help with cutscene camera
Post by: Turey on October 05, 2006, 10:33:45 pm

is there any way to "follow" a ship smoothly with the cutscene camera? say, if i want the camera to always be 100m behind a ship, no matter where it is?

if there isn't, could we get this added? something like:

set-camera-relative-to
   Positions the camera relative to an object. Takes 4 arguments...
   1:   Object to place relative to
   2:   Relative X distance (meters)
   3:   Relative Y distance (meters)
   4:   Relative Z distance (meters)


so if i wanted to follow a ship from 75m behind, all I'd have to do would be:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/Turey/followship.png)



EDIT: alright, I figured out how to follow a ship using existing SEXPs, but it's really jerky. I need to smooth it out, then I'll post what I did.

that SEXP would still savve me quite a lot of work. So if anyone wanted to code it in... *hint hint*