Here's a small contrib to the camera. It's the alpha fade from the new templates. Simply add this to the end of the handle_camera function. Also, you can use c_trace in that function without any problems as long as enable_polycollision is greater than 0.5. When the next version of 3DGS is released, this limitation will be lifted(see beta page), and you'll be able to use 0 or 0.5 with trace_hit/c_trace(properly).

Code:

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var fade_toggle = 1; //0 = off; 1 = on
var fade_start = 90;
var fade_end = 60;
var temp3[3];

if(fade_toggle == 1)
{
	vec_diff(temp.x, my.x, camera.x);
	if(fade_start > 0)
	{	 
		temp3.x = vec_length(temp.x); // distance from camera to target
		if(temp3.x < fade_start)
		{
	  	   my.transparent = on; // fade to zero depending distance to fade end
	   	   player_weapon.transparent = on;
                   my.shadow = off;
		   player_weapon.shadow = off;
		      //NOTE: use 1st max to avoid negative alpha
		      //use 2nd max to avoid divide by zero
	   	        my.alpha = 100 * max(0, ((temp3.x - fade_end) / max(1,(fade_start - fade_end))));
	   	        player_weapon.alpha = my.alpha;
	  	}
	  	else
	  	{
		     my.transparent = off;
		     player_weapon.transparent = off;
                     my.shadow = on;
		     player_weapon.shadow = on;
		}
   	}
}

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