Camera

[developa]

Hi, how to setCameraMatrix camera tracking on individual players to follow them, twisted and the like?

[NeXuS™]

You have to use a timer or an event which is called every frame (onClientPreRender is what I would use).

If you want have a fix position for the cam pos, you can just get the player's pos every time when the functions is called, and then set the camera matrix with the fix pos and the player's pos.

[developa]

function followPed()
	local position = {getElementPosition(localPlayer)}
	local pedPosition = {getElementPosition(ped)}
	setCameraMatrix(position[1], position[2], position[3], pedPosition[1], pedPosition[2], pedPosition[3])
end
addEventHandler("onClientPreRender", root, followPed)

 

something like this?

[NeXuS™]

Yep, just like that. I mean, if you want the camera to be in an exact pos, you can just change

local position = {getElementPosition(localPlayer)}

to a fix one, and then it would be a static cam which would follow a ped. If you need further help, feel free to ask.

[developa]

i have error

bad argument @setCameraMatrix [expected vector3 at argument 4, got boolean]

[NeXuS™]

Do you have an element called 'ped'?

[developa]

 

I have it, but it does not set me a camera

[NeXuS™]

Can you post the full code?

[developa]

ped = createPed(135, 361.39, 171.45, 1025.79, 180)
setElementDimension(ped, 5)
setElementInterior(ped, 3)

function followPed()
	local position = {getElementPosition(localPlayer)}
	local pedPosition = {getElementPosition(ped)}
	setCameraMatrix(position[1], position[2], position[3], pedPosition[1], pedPosition[2], pedPosition[3])
end
addEventHandler("onClientPreRender", followPed)

 

[NeXuS™]

Are you near the ped?

[developa]

yes, about five, ten meters away from him

[NeXuS™]

What does this output?
 

ped = createPed(135, 361.39, 171.45, 1025.79, 180)
setElementDimension(ped, 5)
setElementInterior(ped, 3)

function followPed()
	outputChatBox(tostring(isElement(ped))
	--local position = {getElementPosition(localPlayer)}
	--local pedPosition = {getElementPosition(ped)}
	--setCameraMatrix(position[1], position[2], position[3], pedPosition[1], pedPosition[2], pedPosition[3])
end
addEventHandler("onClientPreRender", followPed)

 

[developa]

output: true

[NeXuS™]

ped = createPed(135, 361.39, 171.45, 1025.79, 180)
setElementDimension(ped, 5)
setElementInterior(ped, 3)

function followPed()
	outputChatBox(tostring(isElement(ped))
	local position = {getElementPosition(localPlayer)}
	local pedPosition = {getElementPosition(ped)}
	outputChatBox("X: " .. position[1] .. " Y: " .. position[2] .. " Z: " .. position[3])
	outputChatBox("PedX: " .. pedPosition[1] .. " PedY: " .. pedPosition[2] .. " PedZ: " .. pedPosition[3])
	--setCameraMatrix(position[1], position[2], position[3], pedPosition[1], pedPosition[2], pedPosition[3])
end
addEventHandler("onClientPreRender", followPed)

Does this output everything?

[developa]

yes, showing

[NeXuS™]

It works just fine for me mate.

ped = createPed(135, 361.39, 171.45, 1025.79, 180)
setElementDimension(ped, 5)
setElementInterior(ped, 3)

function followPed()
	outputChatBox(tostring(isElement(ped)))
	local position = {getElementPosition(localPlayer)}
	local pedPosition = {getElementPosition(ped)}
	outputChatBox("X: " .. position[1] .. " Y: " .. position[2] .. " Z: " .. position[3])
	outputChatBox("PedX: " .. pedPosition[1] .. " PedY: " .. pedPosition[2] .. " PedZ: " .. pedPosition[3])
	setCameraMatrix(position[1], position[2], position[3], pedPosition[1], pedPosition[2], pedPosition[3])
end
addEventHandler("onClientPreRender", root, followPed)