how to go about scripting a moving camera?

[Luke_Ferrara]

how can a script the camera so it will back up take a 90 degree turn go forward and get an aerial view of an object?

[Gamesnert]

I'm pretty sure all you need is:

• onClientPreRender
  
• setCameraMatrix
  
• Some Lua knowledge
  
• A lot of maths

I doubt there's a much easier way.

[Dark Dragon]

and easy way would be creating 2 invisible objects, which you use moveObject on then get their coordinates in onClientPreRender -> setCameraMatrix

[Cannonball]

and easy way would be creating 2 invisible objects, which you use moveObject on then get their coordinates in onClientPreRender -> setCameraMatrix

Or 2 small objects -> setElementAlpha

[Dark Dragon]

thats what i meant basically.

[Luke_Ferrara]

could I have an example on how that would work?

[Dark Dragon]

local obj1 = createObject(1337,0,0,5)
setElementAlpha(obj1,0)
local obj2 = createObject(1337,-5,5,4.5)
setElementAlpha(obj2,0)
fadeCamera(true)
moveObject(obj1,30000,5,0,5)
moveObject(obj2,30000,10,5,4.5)
 
addEventHandler("onClientPreRender",getRootElement(),
function()
local cx,cy,cz = getElementPosition(obj1)
local tx,ty,tz = getElementPosition(obj2)
setCameraMatrix(cx,cy,cz,tx,ty,tz)
end
)

[Luke_Ferrara]

it doesn't work I still don't firmly understand, I know that setCameraMatrix sets the camera and it's suppose to set it to the object and move the object but the code doesn't move the camera back it just sits there...heres my code

function setCameraOnPlayerJoin()
local obj1 =  createObject(1337,
805.09777832031, -2780.2409667969, 9.3761787414551)
setElementAlpha(obj1,0)
local obj2 = createObject(1337, 821.29284667969, -2780.1831054688, 9.3761787414551)
setElementAlpha(obj2,0)
moveObject(obj1,30000,821.29284667969, -2780.1831054688, 9.3761787414551)
moveObject(obj2,30000,821.45483398438, -2786.248046875, 11.3835067749023)
fadeCamera(source, true, 5)
local cx,cy,cz = getElementPosition(obj1)
local tx,ty,tz = getElementPosition(obj2)
setCameraMatrix(source, cx,cy,cz,tx,ty,tz)
end
 
addEventHandler("onPlayerLogin",getRootElement(), setCameraOnPlayerJoin)

[Dark Dragon]

it just stays because you set the camera matrix only once. use client side code and set the camera matrix within onClientPreRender, like in my example

[Luke_Ferrara]

okay now it is working however I want it to follow a path so i created a midpoint where one object would pick up where the other one left off..how would I do this?

[Luke_Ferrara]

BUMP?

[50p]

okay now it is working however I want it to follow a path so i created a midpoint where one object would pick up where the other one left off..how would I do this?

...

• A lot of maths

...

[vovo4ka]

If you needed advanced camera for machinima you can use stage resource. You can take result like real movie camera

[Luke_Ferrara]

If you needed advanced camera for machinima you can use stage resource. You can take result like real movie camera

how can I use that in-game? I need it because in my server you can create a character but when you click create character the camera moves to a new room and you can create your skin there however i need to move left but the moveObject only can move in one direction and i need to move back and then left...how can I accomplish this?

[50p]

You can use timers to move objects in different directions at different times.

But what vovo4ka wanted to say is you can use stage resource which lets you feel like movie "director" (and I think that would be better name for such resource).

[Luke_Ferrara]

but how can i bring that into my game mode???? I created what i want with the stage resource and got a .std file when I include that in my meta it doesnt do anything! I need the camera to move when a gui button is clicked and some peds doing activities in the back but when I start this it does nothing this resource is for recording movies with a video camera or playback recorder

[vovo4ka]

Now you can't. These files works only with stage.

Now I'm working on API for playing this files in other resourses

[Luke_Ferrara]

Yeah so I please get an example of how to do it with the timers and everything?

[Dark Dragon]

local obj1 = createObject(1337,0,0,5)
setElementAlpha(obj1,0)
local obj2 = createObject(1337,-5,5,4.5)
setElementAlpha(obj2,0)
fadeCamera(true)
 
function move1()
moveObject(obj1,30000,5,0,5)
moveObject(obj2,30000,10,5,4.5)
setTimer(move2,30000,1)
end
addEventHandler("onClientResourceStart",getResourceRootElement(getThisResource()),move1)
 
function move2()
moveObject(obj1,30000,0,0,5)
moveObject(obj2,30000,-5,5,4.5)
setTimer(move1,30000,1)
end
 
addEventHandler("onClientPreRender",getRootElement(),
function()
local cx,cy,cz = getElementPosition(obj1)
local tx,ty,tz = getElementPosition(obj2)
setCameraMatrix(cx,cy,cz,tx,ty,tz)
end
)

this would make the camera loop between those 2 states i used before.