Hey, I made a thing.
The idea of this plugin is that you can move your monitor camera or any atom to a position you like you like and save those coordinates. Later on you can set your camera or the atom back to the saved coordinates.
I'm using this plugin myself together with VAMStory, so that the monitor camera can follow people around and it gives me control over the shots I'd like to show, alongside the text that is displayed by VAMStory. But you can use it with any other plugin from which you can call actions.
This is the current UI (version 7+):
This video probably helps to understand what the plugin does and how to use it. (The video was made with version 1, the basics still apply, but there's more features/buttons now).
Explanation video:
Credits
I salute you guys for making awesome plugins. I now know first hand how hard it is just to save and retrieve an Array, let alone a Dictionary in the JSON save file. You guys are awesome!
Other
This was something that I felt was missing for a while now and after not finding a plugin that does what I want, I went about creating it myself. It has been a frustrating experience, because I'm only a mediocre coder and I had to reverse engineer my way through this - and I'm sorry - copy some code from other plugin authors. But somehow, after a lot of debugging - the plugin seems to work fairly well now.
I'm happy to get any feedback on this. Leave a like if you've found the plugin useful - it really does make a difference.
The idea of this plugin is that you can move your monitor camera or any atom to a position you like you like and save those coordinates. Later on you can set your camera or the atom back to the saved coordinates.
I'm using this plugin myself together with VAMStory, so that the monitor camera can follow people around and it gives me control over the shots I'd like to show, alongside the text that is displayed by VAMStory. But you can use it with any other plugin from which you can call actions.
This is the current UI (version 7+):
This video probably helps to understand what the plugin does and how to use it. (The video was made with version 1, the basics still apply, but there's more features/buttons now).
Explanation video:
Credits
I salute you guys for making awesome plugins. I now know first hand how hard it is just to save and retrieve an Array, let alone a Dictionary in the JSON save file. You guys are awesome!
- MacGruber - looked a lot at their code and used some of their Utils
- Acidbubbles - learnt a lot from their code, especially with setting the camera correctly
- hazmox - for the VAMStory plugin that gave me the final push to create this plugin
Other
This was something that I felt was missing for a while now and after not finding a plugin that does what I want, I went about creating it myself. It has been a frustrating experience, because I'm only a mediocre coder and I had to reverse engineer my way through this - and I'm sorry - copy some code from other plugin authors. But somehow, after a lot of debugging - the plugin seems to work fairly well now.
I'm happy to get any feedback on this. Leave a like if you've found the plugin useful - it really does make a difference.
