Getting camera positions.

[nogreymatter]

Hello I'm new here (actually signed up a while ago but just fixed the log in problem), but I have made missions for I don't know how long. However I was, and still am, not good at cutseens. I hope this isn't to much of a noob question but for some reason I can't get the camera position ingame (by pressing ctrl, which is my keyboard fire button), and paste the coordinates to notepad for a camera position. Can anybody help me?

I have OFP:GOTY ver. 1.91

Thanks

[Tyger]

See Mesiah's Camera.sqs Tutorial  here. That should help you

Maybe I should read your post first  

Did you execute

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this exec "camera.sqs"in the init line of a game logic, trigger or unit?

And WELCOME TO THE FORUMS!

[nogreymatter]

Yes.

For some reason it worked one time, but not anymore.
Now when ever I alt-tab out of game to past the coordinates, nothing happens.

I did read Mesiah's camera tutorial, thats were I got this from.

[Tyger]

hmm. That is odd...

What is your OS? Linux? Mac? XP?
That could be part of the problem....

[nogreymatter]

I have Windows Media Center Edition.

Sorry it took me a while to reply back.

[bedges]

as a matter of interest, which part of it isn't working? does the camera.sqs script work (i.e. the mission begins and there's a nice camera angle displayed) or is it just the capturing of the camera info and transferring it to notepad?

[nogreymatter]

I can't capture the camera info (i.e. angle) and transfer it to notepad.

Thats the only problem I have.

[Pilot]

The tut Tyger linked to will solve your problem.

When you have the angle you want, press the "ctrl" key.  Then, alt-tab out of OFP and open up Notepad.  Click edit-paste, or press Ctrl-V

-Pilot

[bedges]

mhmm. read his first post and you'll see that's precisely what he's having problems with  

the only thing i can suggest is that the ctrl key is not bound to the same thing. have you tried resetting to default keys?

other than that, when you say it worked once upon a time, what have you changed since then? new pc components?

i confess i'm stumped  :-\

[Pilot]

*reads first post*
...
*feels stupid*

Try both left Ctrl and right Ctrl.  Maybe one works and the other doesn't?

-Pilot

[Planck]

Only thing I can think of is 'Ctrl' is bound to more than one thing.

And one of them is taking priority over the other.


Planck

[nogreymatter]

It might be bound to something else but I doubt it. Umm I added some fonts and after that id didn't work, but I had to reformat my comp a few days ago so those fonts were erased. I'll check the keys tommarow.

Once again thanks for you help.

[nogreymatter]

Well Cntrl isn't locked to anything else, and I still can't figure out whats worng.
Not only that but now my horizon is dark blue. I think its because I installed my driver update for my video card.

Damn what else can go wrong?

[Tyger]

Have you tried adjusting your Operation Flashpoint settings via the .exe file or what ever?

[Trapper]

My simple solution for the camera positions:

- Create a second user profile, and don't change any key binding.

- Copy your missions to this profile.

- Work with second profile to collect the camera positions. Now every camera.sqs key binding works like it should.

- After collecting the camera positions continue the work with your first profile.

EDIT: I never knew it's possible to directly past the position in Windows. I've always copied the position from the "clipboard.txt" file in the flashpoint root, which is created/updated everytime CTRL is pressed.