Question Any camera guides or tutorials around here?

[Babell99]

Hi guys,

I am looking for a way to take control of the camera.

Example: I have two UIButton.

- If I click on Button01 than I see the person from the left perspective.
- If I click on Button02 than I see the person from the right perspective.

Briefly what is the object that I should use (I think its the WindowCamera) to take control of the view. What should I call in the button trigger to change that view perspective?

I am looking for some kind of camera control tutorial, but I did not find anything. Let me know if there is some documentation I could read to get a hold on this.

Thanks guys!

 

[MacGruber]

There are various way, depending on what you are trying to do:

1. If the goal is to make screenshots from different perspectives, note that my SuperShot plugin has the ability to do this. There is this little video tutorial:
2. If the goal is to teleport the player around, e.g. to follow some kind of story in your scene, checkout AcidBubbles SpawnPoint plugin. There is an example in my CyberNight scene that uses SubScenes, each with their own spawn point: https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/cybernight.6738/
3. If the goal is video recording, you may want to check out my 2 tutorials on video recording. Among lots of other useful things, in the second part it covers having the WindowCamera flying smoothly through your scene as well as camera stabilizing tricks. Check out "Video Capture" Part 1 and 2 in the VaM Basics section here: https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/macgrubers-video-tutorials.7313/

 

[Babell99]

There are various way, depending on what you are trying to do:

1. If the goal is to make screenshots from different perspectives, note that my SuperShot plugin has the ability to do this. There is this little video tutorial:
2. If the goal is to teleport the player around, e.g. to follow some kind of story in your scene, checkout AcidBubbles SpawnPoint plugin. There is an example in my CyberNight scene that uses SubScenes, each with their own spawn point: https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/cybernight.6738/
3. If the goal is video recording, you may want to check out my 2 tutorials on video recording. Among lots of other useful things, in the second part it covers having the WindowCamera flying smoothly through your scene as well as camera stabilizing tricks. Check out "Video Capture" Part 1 and 2 in the VaM Basics section here: https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/macgrubers-video-tutorials.7313/

You provided me with many options here! Really appreciated ! I will take a look at this.

Do you know if there is a way to take control of the camera thru the trigger without coding our own plugin?

Thanks a thousand time MacGruber. You are very helpful as usual.

 

[MacGruber]

Do you know if there is a way to take control of the camera thru the trigger without coding our own plugin?

As said, checkout the SpawnPoint plugin by AcidBubbles. Just place that plugin on a number of Empty atoms in your scene and call the "Spawn Now" action via triggers. Each atom position is a position for your camera. You might want to disable the "Spawn On Enable" check box in the plugins options, if you don't want to spawn there when the scene loads.