World editor camera

#1 Have you tried pressing Alt-C to switch into FLY CAM mode? Assuming you haven't made any mods to break this.

#2 Yes, the Fly Cam mode no longer seems to function. The reason being I believe I removed the normal camera and replaced it with the Advanced Camera found in a tutorial.

Perhaps I need to renable the old camera and have both functioning? This is pretty new to me, so I may just need to spend some time on Camera 101.

I am curious though how changes to the game scripts are impacting the world editor.

#3 Ok, so I've been able to restore the orginal camera functions, including the Fly Cam. Also using the below, I can partially do what I'm trying to achieve. With the below code in commands.cs I can switch from the normal camera, to the fly out, and to my stationary "advanced" camera.

The problem is unlike the code below, I don't really want to make the advanced camera the control object, I want to keep the player the control object, but switch to that camera's "view". Giving the advanced camera control gives me the display from the correct camera, but I of course am unable to move the character.

How can I leave control with the player, but switch to different cameras?

function serverCmdToggleCamera(%client)
{
  
   %control = %client.getControlObject();
   if (%control == %client.player){
      %control = %client.camera; 
      %control.mode = toggleCameraFly;
   }else if(%control == %client.camera){
   
      %control = %client.advCamera;
   }else{
      %control = %client.player;
      %control.mode = observerFly;
   }
   %client.setControlObject(%control);
}

#4 Heres what I used when I was using the advanced camera (since I have written my own camera). I use the same method with my own camera as well to allow Fly Cam.

function serverCmdToggleCamera(%client)
{
   %control = %client.getControlObject();
   %cameraObject = %client.getCameraObject();
   
   if (%control == %client.player)
   {
      %control = %client.camera;
      %control.mode = toggleCameraFly;
      %cameraObject = %client.camera;
   }
   else
   {
      %control = %client.player;
      %control.mode = observerFly;
      %cameraObject = %client.advCamera;
   }
   %client.setControlObject(%control);
   %client.setCameraObject(%cameraObject);
}

#5 Excellent! Thank you Brian. This is a matter of me learning the methods available to the objects.

One additional question though, what exactly does this do?

%control.mode = toggleCameraFly;

or

%control.mode = observerFly;

I can't seem to find any references to "toggleCameraFly" or "observerFly" anywhere in the scripts or in the engine code. Thank you so much for the help!

#6 Honestly I don't think they do anything. They are legacy statements that kept track of which mode the camera was in. I think we can safely remove them I just never got around to it.