Hi, just wondering if anyone can help me with this - it should be simple enough but I can't quite get my head around it:

What I want to do is have a camera that moves *around* the player, so that if you move the mouse up, the camera will tilt to look downwards but also move upwards, ie it should move around the character on an axis. Maybe I need to brush up on my trig and get out the old cos and sin, but if someone has already done this I'd be very grateful for any tips...

Another thing I'd like to do - much simpler I hope, is to modify the venture.wdl so that when the cursor reaches the edge of the screen, the player/camera pans in that direction.

Any help much appreciated.
Cheers,
Keith

Ambit,
JCL has some Chase cam code that works with the current beta releases. With it, all you would have to do is compute the position of the camera.

Cameras can be a little bit tricky, because if you use the typical method of pointing a camera at a player, (by subtracting the two position vectors and then using vec_to_angle) and the camera points down more than 90 degrees, the view appears to spin at various speeds until it comes to rest at the angle it was looking for. This makes the camera act unprofessional at best, and nauseating at worst!

Position can be found by taking a vector for the distance of the camera to the player, and doing a vec_rotate on the value for what a angle you want the camera to appear at and then adding that displacement to the players position.

Good luck!

-WildCat

Thanks for the reply, Wildcat. The annoying thing is that I actually coded something similar to what I need when ent_vertex wasn't working properly, but I seem to have deleted the project thinking I'd never need it again. D'oh!
Look forward to seeing the chase cam in the next update, until then I guess I'll unearth my trig books.
Cheers,
Keith