Controlling camera via matinee
i need to set the camera actor as camera target, and control all the movements of the camera via matinee: i need the camera to move by 90 degrees left and right, move forward and backward by steps, in other words all the camera movement are supposed to be small "video-clips" called by keybord entries. I also need to activate the mouse to look around by pressing a mouse button.
so far i've done this:
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it ALMOST work, i've only added the key to turn left, and on key pressing, it actually turns by 90 degrees, BUUUUUT...it only fire once and then stops working, ALSO only the camera turns (the point of view so to speak) but the character doesn't
any suggestion to proceed from here plz? is this the correct approach to the matter?
thx.
so far i've done this:
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it ALMOST work, i've only added the key to turn left, and on key pressing, it actually turns by 90 degrees, BUUUUUT...it only fire once and then stops working, ALSO only the camera turns (the point of view so to speak) but the character doesn't
any suggestion to proceed from here plz? is this the correct approach to the matter?
thx.
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You need to turn on ResetOnPlayor, or something like that (forgot exact name), property in the matinee, to make sure it works every time. You also need to enabled NoResetOnRewind or it won't work either.
Also each Console Event needs to run Stop on all other matinees but the one it has to play.
Console events also need a 1 second delay or you'd be able to play multiple matinees at the same time. That also means one console event needs to toggle off all other console events for the directions of 1 second, or through a bool check.
Why the character doesn't rotate I don't know, you could otherwise also do the same thing through a key input event instead of a console event.
Just to know, how do i set the camera actor as a camera target??
thx in advance
Didn't understand the cam target question. You mean controlling what it focuses on? I tend to attach the camera to the player/whatever you control with the Attach To action in Kismet.
this is what happens to my camera:
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at the beginning of the video i'm moving back and forward, but after turning left if i go bac and forward you will notice it will look like i'm moving strafe left and right this is because only the camera turned not the character...
i would like to archieve a camera like this:
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There is a property in Matinee that says NoResetOnRewind or such, make sure it is on or it would reset to its original orientation each time it plays while you want it to turn 90 degrees relative to current rotation.
If that didn't help, show me how you set it up, if it is just the camera or what else is in the level and what controls what.
in the level ther's only the player spawn, camera actor and 1 light, the camera is controlled by a matinee clip which is set up to play on a key pressed, that's it nothing else. (posted a kismet screen above)
however in this video thers'the theory of how to set up the camera (read in the video description on youtube), i was trying to archive this result using the infos i've found in the video, if you know another way plz feel free to share it, i'm running out of ideas :P
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We simply have a camera actor that we set as camera target and all movement is controlled via matinee moving this camera.
thx anyway
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Here my new post for a problem whit mouse::poly101:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=122338