Hard Light Productions Forums

Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: WMCoolmon on June 29, 2008, 03:24:57 am

Title: Cutscene question for FREDders
Post by: WMCoolmon on June 29, 2008, 03:24:57 am

"reset-camera"

When you hear that, without reading the description, do you think it will:

• Switch the camera back to the player ship

-or-

• Switch the camera back to the player ship
• Reset camera rotation and position

With the new camera code, the camera will retain its position between set- and reset- calls, which I can see being useful to people.

In addition, the new code can (very easily) support multiple cameras. How should that be handled?

Example:
set-camera-position ;;using Default SEXP camera
set-camera "Charlie" ;; Now using Charlie
set-camera-position ;;Changing Charlie position
set-camera-facing ;;Changing Charlie facing
set-camera-fov ;;Changing Charlie's FOV
reset-camera ;;Reset camera
set-camera-position ;;Which camera is this? Is it Charlie, or the default SEXP camera?
;;If it's still Charlie, how do we get back to the default SEXP camera?

Title: Re: Cutscene question for FREDders
Post by: Blue Lion on June 29, 2008, 04:48:13 pm

I think of the second one, it brings the camera back to the default position.

Title: Re: Cutscene question for FREDders
Post by: Ransom on June 30, 2008, 02:28:23 am

I think of the latter as well, but to be honest I can't think of a situation where that would be more useful than the former.