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Understand the camera view in FPS

by Emanuel Zephir · in Torque Game Engine · 11/03/2002 (9:18 pm) · 1 replies

Hey. I have a question. How does the camera work in FPS for the Player view (the whole free flying thing makes sense with Alt - c). I want to learn how to modify the camera when the player is in control. I need the camera to change the axis that its looking down (still aiming at the player though) when a certain key is pressed.

It seems like the camera is integrated with the Player class (am I correct?), but I am extremely confused with where I need to go or what exactly I should be looking at.

Any help or direction that anyone could give me would be VASTLY appreciated.

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11/04/2002 (4:37 am)
have a gander at Camera.cc , I have been looking at doing the same exact thing your speaking of.
I am looking to add 2 maybe 3 new camera views in the game that can be accessed via a keystroke similar to alt-c etc.

the basic idea would be to create a new datablock script side like the observer one, a new state and then the engine code to handle the positionin gof the camera.

-Ron