LOL, it's obviously fantastic because I made it duh. Actually the camera is pretty nice, and it took me a long time to get it working exactly how i wanted it to work. There are some miner problems that mabe someone could help me over come. When we are above directly above the player, (90 degrees from the horizonal) the left and right keys seem to stop working correctly, but i think i know how to fix that problem. When i set the limit to 89 degrees however the camera seems to twitch. Any solutions for the twitching at angle 89?

Incase you can't figure it out, the left and right arrow keys turn clockwise and counter clockwise about the player, the up and down moves the camera up and down while still keeping the distance from the camera to the player equal. The mouse wheel is the zoom in and zoom out (i think this should be changed since you going from keyboard to mouse, someone give me a better idea for where it should be on the keyboard and eventually i'll make it so the mouse moves the camera when u hold the middle button down i think, but only if you guys want it to). Also let me know if you guys want me to write a tutorial exactly on how i figured this out and how i did it; a break down of the components more or less.

One last thing, I added cam_speed to slow down how quickly the camera was moving. Eventually this is something that can be worked in to your options menu to give the player a greater range of freedom to how fast he wants the camera to move.

This is very easy to include, make sure your player pointer is set, and just call prence_camera() somewhere in your main script and your done.

And without further bs.. lol here is the code... (drama)

Code:

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function prence_camera  //Yes i know name was very origenal
{
	var cam_dist = 200; //starting distance between camera and player
	var cam_dist_z;  //the distance when the z axis is used
	var cam_ang; //the angle of the camera on the x and y axis
	var cam_ang_z; //the angle between the z.axis and the horizon
	
	var cam_speed = 0.2; // speed we want the camera to move, play with this
	
	wait(-1);
	while(1)
	{
		//camera
		wait(1);
		vec_set(temp.x, player.x);
		vec_sub(temp.x, camera.x);
		vec_to_angle(camera.pan, temp); // rotate camera toward player
		
		cam_dist += mickey.z * cam_speed; //zoom with mouse wheel
		cam_ang += (key_cur - key_cul) * cam_speed; //curse buttons
		cam_ang_z += (key_cuu - key_cud) * cam_speed;
		
		cam_ang_z = max(0,min(cam_ang_z,89)); //dont go above 89degrees
		cam_dist = min(1000,max(cam_dist,50));//dont zoom out more then
		//1000 and dont zoom in more then 50
		cam_dist_z = fcos(cam_ang_z,cam_dist); //trig don't bother
		camera.x = player.x + fcos(cam_ang,cam_dist_z);
		camera.y = player.y + fsin(cam_ang,cam_dist_z);
		camera.z = player.z + fsin(cam_ang_z,cam_dist);
		camera.z = max(player.z,camera.z); //don't go underground
	}
}

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If u can fix the twitching that happens when u look down above i believe it's 80 degrees let me know please. Let the comments begin lol.

lol updated the script already... the mouse now also can be used, just hold down ur middle button or the mouse wheel and move ur mouse around. Page up and page down now also zoom in and out.

Code:

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function prence_camera //ya i know, amazing
{
	var cam_dist = 200;
	var cam_dist_z;
	var cam_ang;
	var cam_ang_z;
	
	var cam_speed = 0.2;
	
	wait(-1);
	while(1)
	{
		//camera
		wait(1);
		vec_set(temp.x, my.x);
		vec_sub(temp.x, camera.x);
		vec_to_angle(camera.pan, temp); // rotate camera to the player
		
		cam_dist += mickey.z + (key_pgup - key_pgdn) * cam_speed;
		
		cam_ang += (key_cur - key_cul) * cam_speed;
		cam_ang_z += (key_cuu - key_cud) * cam_speed;
		
		if(mouse_middle == 1)
		{
			cam_ang += mickey.x * cam_speed;
			cam_ang_z += mickey.y * cam_speed;
		}
		
		cam_ang_z = max(0,min(cam_ang_z,89)); //dont go above 89degrees
		cam_dist = min(1000,max(cam_dist,50));
		
		cam_dist_z = fcos(cam_ang_z,cam_dist); //trig don't bother
		camera.x = my.x + fcos(cam_ang,cam_dist_z);
		camera.y = my.y + fsin(cam_ang,cam_dist_z);
		camera.z = my.z + fsin(cam_ang_z,cam_dist);
		camera.z = max(my.z,camera.z); //don't go underground
        }
}

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still need anti twitching code...

oh ya and about the licence... if u wanna use this camera you must display my logo when ur game starts for no less then 31536001 seconds (1 more then a year), OR you can give me credit some where in your credit thingy, or... you can give me no credit at all (it's okay i wont get mad and file charges) the choice is yours.

Thnx for the camera code PrenceOfDarkness, you can't have enough camera codes these last months
But I ask you as I have asked Stansmedia about his sun flare contribution, are you cheerfull enough to build up a not precomplided level with this camera code in it so it easiyer for the user to implant it into any project Btw, thxn for the update !!

Cheers

Frazzle

I agree... thanks for the code!
I was getting a strange result at first, but I think that was due to some of my own code I had in the project... looks cool, and it's a very useful type of camera

Nice the first ever sentence I´ve seen wich starts with LOL
by the way: its a great code
you cant have enough of these
Regards
Aztec

From what i have read , the camera code sounds like that of which Final Fantasy XI used ...which in return is great for me cause i loved that camera work...and have been looking/trying to create... so hope it works

Daniel

Its a bit twitchy when i try and move it... but other than that, i think that it would work great

Thanks for the contribution...

Link

so because you wrote it makes it good?
lol, kidding, but would you make a demo?

i would gladly make a demo, but i don't know any good uploading sites. The code is stand alone. All u need is 2 start a new project... add an entity and assign it to the player pointer through player=my, thats what i'm gonna do lol.. finally the twitching is a big problem, i ask you all to help me out on that, i can't figure it out..

Suggestion: in the next update, you could change the code to use only the "player" pointer instead of the "my" pointer. That way it could be called from any where, like the main function, too...