Camera rotation

[shell gazelle]

Is there a way to click an action and have the camera view be in front of the player and the click again to have the camera rotate back where it was?

[haughty vale]

Yes.

I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to implement it.

[shell gazelle]

I guess I might have to just wait until there's more documentation or code samples online

[haughty vale]

Try camera satellite mode and camera free mode

you can use a boolean to store the state

check the documentation

it should be sufficient

[shell gazelle]

there's nothing in the doc on camera free mode

is there a dev library for a ide that does autocomplete or something... like pycharm?

[haughty vale]

Camera:SetModeFree()

I can't find it in the docs either, which is really weird

https://docs.cu.bzh/reference/camera should be here

[shell gazelle]

yeah, that's what i'm reading

i think what i want is something like a object attached to the player but in front and backward facing from 3rd person angle. the free mode makes it were the player just spins. what i want is the same as toggling the view in minecraft

[haughty vale]

I know. I think you’ll have to figure out yourself with rotations and stuff

[shell gazelle]

so cubzh can only have 1 camera, right?

[haughty vale]

😅 I don’t know this answer myself

the documentation says no

but code examples like the minimap world indicate otherwise

[quick stone]

it's possible to create several of them, but I couldn't tell you how, I think @fossil nebula succeeded in one of his projects

[shell gazelle]

okay, i think i figured it out...

toggle = Object()
toggle.Position = { Player.Position.X, Player.Position.Y+10, Player.Position.Z+10 }
toggle.Rotation = {0, -math.pi, 0}

World:AddChild(Player)
Player:AddChild(toggle)

by making it a child of the player, it appears to stay fixed in front, but facing the player. when i switch camera like this:

if toggleView then
    Camera:SetModeThirdPerson(toggle)
else
    Camera:SetModeThirdPerson(Player)
end

it appears to have the same movement but from the front

[haughty vale]

Awesome solution!

That’s a clever one, I would have overcomplicated it

[fossil nebula]

to create a new camera, just create it like an item: myCamera = Camera()

you can find more information into the minimap example world, it is not exactly the same use, but there is a sceond camera