Camerastuff

[Tete omar]

Hi, all you missed me ?

i want when the player join directly , i don't want to let him play so i first show him a place in game or something or set the cam looking at something and fadeCamera and these stuff because if the players spawned in 1 area something bad will be happen i want the player's cam looking at something that's all like this

[Castillo]

Use:

setCameraMatrix 

[Tete omar]

ok if i want to get back to the player ?

[Castillo]

setCameraTarget 

[Tete omar]

setCameraTarget this function , i tried to set camera target to an moveable object it didn't work

setCameraTarget(theObject) 

does it work ?

[Castillo]

That's because the only supported element is a player for now, wiki quote:

This function allows you to set a player's camera to follow other elements instead. Currently supported element type is:

Players

[Tete omar]

ok thanks castillo

[Castillo]

You're welcome.

[Tete omar]

ok what's wrong here now

function setCameraOnPlayerJoin() 
     fadeCamera(source, true, 1); 
     setCameraMatrix(source, -2135.708984375, -187.71142578125, 157.66786193848, 0, 0, 0); 
end 
addEventHandler("onPlayerJoin", getRootElement(), setCameraOnPlayerJoin); 
  
function herewego(player) 
setCameraTarget( player ) 
bindKey( player, "f", "down", herewego ) 
end 
addEventHandler("onResourceStart", getRootElement(), herewego) 

i want if i pressed on F button then the cam gets back to the player

[Castillo]

onResourceStart has no player argument.

[Dev]

Just don't copy this code I'm posting, compare it with your last one to learn your mistakes.

function setCameraOnPlayerJoin() 
     fadeCamera(source, true, 1); 
     setCameraMatrix(source, -2135.708984375, -187.71142578125, 157.66786193848, 0, 0, 0); 
end 
addEventHandler("onPlayerJoin", getRootElement(), setCameraOnPlayerJoin); 
  
function setTarget( player ) 
     setCameraTarget( player, player ) 
end 
  
function hereWeGo( res ) 
     for key, value in ipairs ( getElementsByType("player") ) do 
          bindKey( value, "f", "down", setTarget ) 
     end 
end 
addEventHandler("onResourceStart", resourceRoot, hereWeGo) 

[Tete omar]

if i want the player press F one time only should i use cancelEvent ?

[Castillo]

No, that function cancels events, you must unbind the key after using it.

[Tete omar]

No, that function cancels events, you must unbind the key after using it.

Well, i used it like this

    function setCameraOnPlayerJoin() 
         fadeCamera(source, true, 1); 
         setCameraMatrix(source, -2135.708984375, -187.71142578125, 157.66786193848, 0, 0, 0); 
         bindKey( source, "F", "down", herewego ) 
    end 
    addEventHandler("onPlayerJoin", getRootElement(), setCameraOnPlayerJoin); 
      
    function herewego ( thePlayer ) 
       gX, gY, gZ = getElementPosition ( thePlayer ) 
       setCameraTarget ( thePlayer ) 
       setElementPosition ( thePlayer, 2450.7463378906, -1659.6678466797, 13.3046875 ) 
       fadeCamera(source, true, 1); 
       setElementFrozen ( thePlayer, false ) 
       unbindKey( source, "F", "down", herewego ) -- when he done spawning & everything here , then unbind this key so what's the problem ? 
    end 

i still can spawn my self over then over

[Castillo]

That's because you got a problem on unbindKey:

unbindKey( source, "F", "down", herewego ) 

Your player argument is 'thePlayer', not 'source'.

[Jaysds1]

try this:

    function setCameraOnPlayerJoin() 
         fadeCamera(source, true, 1) 
         setCameraMatrix(source, -2135.708984375, -187.71142578125, 157.66786193848, 0, 0, 0) 
         bindKey( source, "F", "down", herewego ) 
    end 
    addEventHandler("onPlayerJoin", getRootElement(), setCameraOnPlayerJoin); 
      
    function herewego ( thePlayer ) 
       gX, gY, gZ = getElementPosition ( thePlayer ) 
       setCameraTarget ( thePlayer,thePlayer ) 
       spawnPlayer( thePlayer, 2450.7463378906, -1659.6678466797, 13.3046875 ) --Spawn the player, instead of setting his new position 
        --plus, the player hasn't been spawned yet, so you can't set an element position if the element isn't available 
       fadeCamera(source, true, 1) 
       setElementFrozen ( thePlayer, false ) 
       unbindKey( source, "F", "down", herewego ) -- when he done spawning & everything here , then unbind this key so what's the problem ? 
    end 

[Tete omar]

thanks jaysds ^^ i fixed it before

I'm off to bed now

meet me

regards

[Jaysds1]

, ok, np

[Flaker]

Easier to use it at client side

[Tete omar]

Easier to use it at client side

what is it ?