Changeing Camera Viewpoints

[will briggs]

Hi,

On the login of our server, you have a location in mta as your background. Im looking to make it change every 5 seconds to a different view point, I have no idea of where to start with this. Atm for my view point i have

    fadeCamera(false,1) 
    setTimer(setCameraMatrix,1000,1,1515, -1636, 22.153465271, 1550, -1675, 9.881813049316) 
    setTimer(fadeCamera,1000,1,true) 

So if anyone can help please reply

Thanks

[Castillo]

Very simple, make a table with the locations, then randomize from it.

local myLocationsTable = {} 
{x, y, z}, 
{x, y, z}, 
{x, y, z}, 
{x, y, z} 
  
function getRandomLocation() 
local rand = math.random(#myLocationsTable) 
local x, y, z = myLocationsTable[rand][1], myLocationsTable[rand][2], myLocationsTable[rand][3] 
return x, y, z 
end 

[will briggs]

Thanks for the speedy responce, but i added the code and now when you join the server, it makes you fall and then spawn on the ground, completly bypassing the login.

Any ideas?

[Aibo]

something like this:

  
views = { 
  { 1515, -1636, 22.153465271, 1550, -1675, 9.881813049316 }, -- first view 
  { 1515, -1636, 22.153465271, 1550, -1675, 9.881813049316 }, -- second view (change coordinats obviously) 
  { 1515, -1636, 22.153465271, 1550, -1675, 9.881813049316 }, -- third, etc 
  timer = false, -- view changing timer will be here 
  current = 0 -- current view will be stored here 
} 
  
-- then 
views.timer = setTimer(function() 
  local new = views.current == #views and 1 or views.current + 1 -- switch to view 1 if the last view is active or switch to next view 
  setCameraMatrix(views[new][1], views[new][2], views[new][3], views[new][4], views[new][5], views[new][6]) 
  views.current = new -- set new view as current 
end, 5000, 0) 
  
-- when you'll need to stop 
killTimer(views.timer) 
  

PS: while i was writing, Solidsnake14 already posted. but you forgot camera facing coordinates

[Aibo]

Thanks for the speedy responce, but i added the code and now when you join the server, it makes you fall and then spawn on the ground, completly bypassing the login.

Any ideas?

you can't just add and expect it to work as you want. these are just examples.

[Castillo]

Indeed, what I gave him was a code to get a random location from a table.

[Citizen]

I fixed the SolidSnake's code:

-- your 3 lines: 
fadeCamera(false,1) 
TimerChange = setTimer(changeLocation,1000,0, ) 
setTimer(fadeCamera,1000,1,true) 
  
--------------------- 
local myLocationsTable = { 
{x, y, z, x2, y2, z2}, -- specify the position of the camera ( x, y, z ) and the point that the camera look at ( x2, y2, z2 ) 
{x, y, z, x2, y2, z2}, 
{x, y, z, x2, y2, z2}, 
{x, y, z, x2, y2, z2} 
 } 
  
function changeLocation(player) 
    local cx, cy, cz, px, py, pz = getRandomLocation() 
    setCameraMatrix( cx, cy, cz, px, py, pz ) 
end 
  
function getRandomLocation() 
    local rand = math.random(#myLocationsTable) 
    local x, y, z, x2, y2, z2 = myLocationsTable[rand][1], myLocationsTable[rand][2], myLocationsTable[rand][3], myLocationsTable[rand][4], myLocationsTable[rand][5], myLocationsTable[rand][6] 
    return x, y, z, x2, y2, z2 
end 
  
-- When the player is logged: 
killTimer( TimerChange ) 

EDIT:

actually you did not. this will not put anything in myLocationsTable:

Fixed

Edited June 5, 2011 by Guest

[will briggs]

Thanks very much, Worked but had to add Set Camera Matrix