Best TPS camera class

Jedimace1 · Post by **Jedimace1** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:30 pm

There seems to be many TPS camera classes. I tried to use the one in "Yet Another Third-Person Camera" but it didn't work at all, and they did mention a bug. I hear about older ones but can't find one with links that still work. Can someone show me the best(for an RPG)?

JP · Post by JP » Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:38 pm

Have you tried searching for RPG cameras? Some people have made ones which they've labelled as RPG cameras instead of third person ones so you might find something different.

pera · Post by **pera** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:57 pm

There is RTS camera. more like for real time strategy / baldurs gate type of game, then camera chasing Lara Croft style, but hey, 3rd person is 3rd person no matter where it stands.

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:05 pm

why don't u make ur own tps camera???
its really easy just make a camera follow a point...and done. all the cameras i saw on this forum are completly useless bc they actually are used to move the character. and when using a realy physics engine thats not working.

Jedimace1 · Post by **Jedimace1** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:25 pm

Searched RPG camera and found nothing. Looked through alot though could've missed something.

why don't u make ur own tps camera???
its really easy just make a camera follow a point...and done. all the cameras i saw on this forum are completly useless bc they actually are used to move the character. and when using a realy physics engine thats not working.

I can make it follow the person, but what happens is when he starts falling(the character), the camera can't keep up, and I can only make it a fixed camera. Also, IDK how to rotate the camera around a point. Got to have rotation. And finally, I can't make it stay behind the character's back, it only stays at one side. A lot that I can't code myself.. I can make the character move like I want too to, it's just the camera.

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:56 pm

dude that has nothing to do with programming thats math. u just have to use some matrixes to calculate the rotation of the camera and then make it follow a scenenode (not child).

Jedimace1 · Post by **Jedimace1** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:14 pm

I thought it had to do with quaternions or something. Learned it when I did XNA a while back. Never actually figured out what it did, but there is a function somewhere in Irrlicht I saw. I guess I will make my own though, and probably post it.