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[The_Bishop_Ghost]

[macguba]

Welcome back!      We have all the posts from those old days, try the forum search function.

Camera.sqs is for finding shots.   Messiah wrote a very good tute on it.   You need to drop the things you extract from it into a script to make your cutscene work.   

We had a flood a while back and lost a lot of stuff.   However most of the scripts survived somewhere.  Have a wordwith Planck if you can't figure out what you need, he's good at finding stuff that seems to have vanished forever.

[The_Bishop_Ghost]

I tried searching and back tracking my own post, but I didn't find anytthing.

[Tyger]

I did a search mate, and I couldn't find anything either. As far as I could find your first posts came around '04.

My suggestion: have you actually tried the camera.sqs yet, even though you don't want to? It might just surprise you how easily things come back to you.

Of course, I have been know to be wrong before 

[schuler]

This is from Messiah
http://www.ofpec.com/ed_depot/the_files/OFPResources/tutorials/camera_sqsTut.zip

; concept by Turok_GMT, modified by snYpir

; syntax:
; [<name of vehicle>, <name of unit to target>,
;  <[xoffset,yoffset,zoffset]><relative to vehicle?>] exec "vehiclecam.sqs"

; example:
; [heli, dilbert,[-2,-4,1],false] exec "vehiclecam.sqs"
; to stop cam use, vehiclecamstop = true
; the loop ends here when vehiclecamstop gets set to true by either
; a trigger or a waypoint's "on activation" field like vehiclecamstop = true

; Thx guys for this super sqs, Ian Murrin.





; get camera vehicle and target
_unit = _this select 0
_target = _this select 1

; u can change the positional offsets for the camera (these are relative to the vehicle)
; x offset
_camoffsetX = (_this select 2) select 0

; y offset
_camoffsetY = (_this select 2) select 1

; z offset
_camoffsetZ = (_this select 2) select 2

; do u want your offsets to be relative to the vehicle?
_camrelative = _this select 3

; clear the variable that will stop this script
vehiclecamstop = false

; create a camera
_cam = "camera" camcreate [0,0,0]
_cam cameraeffect ["internal", "back"]

titleCut ["","BLACK IN",10]







; now create a loop to continuously update the cam's pos
; so it appears to be attached to the vehicle

#loop

_newpos = getpos _unit

; set posn not relative to vehicle?
? NOT(_camrelative) : _cam camsetpos [(_newpos select 0) + _camoffsetX, (_newpos select 1) + _camoffsetY, (_newpos select 2) + _camoffsetZ]; goto "commit"

; set posn relative to vehicle
_cam camsettarget _unit
_cam camsetrelpos [_camoffsetX,_camoffsetY,_camoffsetZ]

#commit
_cam camcommit 0

; aim camera at target
_cam camsettarget _target
_cam camcommit 0


; insert a small update time to avoid anychance of any nasty
; infinity loop errors

~0.01

; perform an if test to see if _stop has been set to true
; of not, do another lap of the loop

? NOT(vehiclecamstop) : goto "loop"








; the loop ends here when vehiclecamstop gets set to true by either
; a trigger or a waypoint's "on activation" field

; once loop had ended, kill the camera and return control to
; player

_cam cameraeffect ["terminate", "back"]
camdestroy _cam

exit

EDIT iam not sure but as Tyger "said something might refresh memories?
it has the

; x offset
_camoffsetX = (_this select 2) select 0

; y offset
_camoffsetY = (_this select 2) select 1

; z offset
_camoffsetZ = (_this select 2) select 2

its all controled under ;this exec "camera.sqs" with the arrows and key pad,,, like 4 8 6 2

[Mr.Peanut]

Sounds like you are describing Blanco's Logic Cam script. Click on Editors Depot(ED)/script/cameras

[The_Bishop_Ghost]

Schuler that reads likle it might be what I am looking for. I'll give it a try.

And to all others thanks for your input. I'll try the camera.sqs. I mean it can't be that hard to figure out.

[schuler]

hey The_Bishop_Ghost  [] exec "camera.sqs"  in a trigger ,i think you can then move the camera, with 4 8 6 2 and the arrows ...you use ctrl for a copy or its starts it [not sure], then paste it in a script, that gives you all the details of the camera pos . im not sure about it all, sorry, but hopfully that helps a bit more