[CruX]

Mblackwell, on 06 January 2012 - 03:53 PM, said:

For third person cameras (a bit late to the party I know) the best way I've found to control them is to map them to some kind of trigger within a sector (easiest is giving the sector a hitag). Then plot out your map so that you can guarantee the player will cross sectors in a way that lets you change the camera angle.
Sure you need extra sectors to handle switching back and forth between cameras but you get a very controllable experience.

Unless I'm missing something, this is pretty much exactly what I suggested doing, only I used an actor within a sector to handle the camera changes, rather than the sector itself. And the reason I'd rather use an actor is because the hitag can be in pretty much any range I want. Albeit, I didn't post any example code for this, but...still...

[Mblackwell]

EmericaSkater, on 07 January 2012 - 04:43 AM, said:

Unless I'm missing something, this is pretty much exactly what I suggested doing, only I used an actor within a sector to handle the camera changes, rather than the sector itself. And the reason I'd rather use an actor is because the hitag can be in pretty much any range I want. Albeit, I didn't post any example code for this, but...still...

Might have been. I only skimmed the thread, though so I missed most of the posts (esp if they didn't have example code). Sorry to steal your thunder .

[CruX]

Mblackwell, on 07 January 2012 - 06:00 AM, said:

Might have been. I only skimmed the thread, though so I missed most of the posts (esp if they didn't have example code). Sorry to steal your thunder .

Nah, I wasn't worried about that, I was just pointing out...Out of genuine curiosity, though, why do you use sector tags? If I read your code right, you have to start tags at 2304 and go up, which seems like it'd be a bit of a hassle.

[Hendricks266]

chicken, on 06 January 2012 - 11:40 AM, said:

frame { name "frame000" tile 0415 }

the tilenumber.

The Commander, on 06 January 2012 - 02:23 PM, said:

You dont need the zero in front of 415 though.

I specifically recall NightFright saying in an HRP changelog that all traces of leading zeroes in tile numbers were removed because it cause a bug in certain situations or certain OSs. IIRC I did the same thing in a pass-through of the SWHRP defs many years ago.

[Mblackwell]

EmericaSkater, on 07 January 2012 - 08:41 AM, said:

Nah, I wasn't worried about that, I was just pointing out...Out of genuine curiosity, though, why do you use sector tags? If I read your code right, you have to start tags at 2304 and go up, which seems like it'd be a bit of a hassle.

Well, you could set it up to be any tag you want but it keeps you from worrying about other tags you might be using. I just stuck with a sector tag (I've done it the other way as well) in this case because it's less code to worry about/less things to go wrong. Not a big deal either way but I figured it's simpler to set up and easier for a beginner to understand in an example.

[The Commander]

Hendricks266, on 07 January 2012 - 03:47 PM, said:

I specifically recall NightFright saying in an HRP changelog that all traces of leading zeroes in tile numbers were removed because it cause a bug in certain situations or certain OSs. IIRC I did the same thing in a pass-through of the SWHRP defs many years ago.

There would also be the fact that you can define to tiles in the 10000+ range.

dummytilerange 14400 14607 320 200
texture 14400 { pal 0 { file "RA_data/Textures/Movie/LOST1/bmap0000.png" } }

[RPD Guy]

upgrade status: now RE-making a model of a "crashed cop car".

[RPD Guy]

STOP S.O.P.A. e P.I.P.A.!!!!!!!

LOL

edit:

[The Commander]

What the fuck

[RPD Guy]

well, here I am again.
and now, I need one thing that is more important than everything. a partiner.
a partiner for codding, modeling, texturing.... anything that helps!
I'm gona say it again: We are remaking Resident Evil 2!

[RPD Guy]

1% complete.

[LeoD]

Dk2, on 03 February 2012 - 11:31 AM, said:

1% complete.

This might become a looong thread.

[Mikko]

Rule number two: Never announce a project unless you're far into the development process.

[RPD Guy]

Quote

Rule number two: Never announce a project unless you're far into the development process.

I'm an anarchist

[Inspector Lagomorf]

LeoD, on 03 February 2012 - 12:06 PM, said:

This might become a looong thread.

Probably not that long, most projects of this sort never finish.

[RPD Guy]

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Probably not that long, most projects of this sort never finish.

like I said, I'm an anarchist.
I will change this fate. lol

[RPD Guy]

well, I will remove this thread, and start one new named "Resident Evil 2 TC"
organization is everything!

one more thing:


High Treason!!!!!111!1!

We need to improve the cam code! can u give some ideas?
Tanks A lot.

Now, FOCUS HERE: http://forums.duke4....iden-evil-2-tc/

[OpenMaw]

Mblackwell, on 06 January 2012 - 03:53 PM, said:

setvar cur_CAMERA_id THISACTOR

Sorry to bump an old thread but I had to ask about this, as i'm dabbling with an oldschool SH mod and was checking out your camera code. This doesn't actually seem to work when I tested it though. Is this no longer valid (or was it ever valid?) way to set a variable?

To clarify "THISACTOR" is not recognized by Eduke32 upon launching. So i'm assuming something has changed in recent builds to prevent this from being a valid course?

[The Commander]

Dk2, on 03 February 2012 - 11:31 AM, said:

1% complete.

I wonder if this got to 2%...

[Hendricks266]

Commando Nukem, on 09 July 2014 - 03:21 AM, said:

Sorry to bump an old thread but I had to ask about this, as i'm dabbling with an oldschool SH mod and was checking out your camera code. This doesn't actually seem to work when I tested it though. Is this no longer valid (or was it ever valid?) way to set a variable?

To clarify "THISACTOR" is not recognized by Eduke32 upon launching. So i'm assuming something has changed in recent builds to prevent this from being a valid course?

setvarvar

[OpenMaw]

Hendricks266, on 09 July 2014 - 11:02 AM, said:

setvarvar

I was just about to come back and say "nevermind I figured it out!" Ha. Thanks Hendricks.

Though I did bump into another glitch. EXTRA does not seem to effect the horiz at all. It always spawns the cameras facing slightly downwards towards the floor.

[Mblackwell]

Are you... using the internal camera sprite?

Because that has its own parameters. Shade = horiz

Also center = 100

So one of those is probably your issue.

[OpenMaw]

Hm... Well, that doesn't exactly make sense to me. See, I did use the second (un-named) frame of the demo camera just for convenience. I figured that frame wouldn't have any code associated with it? If that's all it is, no big deal I can just move it elsewhere. Thanks.