tracking camera

[Max_Salivan]

Hello all,how to make a camera that will follow the player
like this cam (camera from portal)

[Seven]

Hello Max_Salivan,

To give you a littl start help:
Please look into the monsters individual .qc files.
As you know, the monsters usualy face the player.
And that is what you want to.

Look especially into the use of the function:
ai_face() (what it does is declared in fight.qc)

Next step:
I would make the "turnable" camera a model (the static rest can be a mesh).
The camera is spawned at the initial position.

I used this code to make my model look at the player all the time:

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void()   your_camera    =
local vector faceplayer1, faceplayer2;
faceplayer1 = vectoangles (self.enemy.origin - self.origin);    // The player is the "enemy" (declared somewhere before)
makevectors (faceplayer1);
faceplayer2 = normalize (v_forward);
self.angles = vectoangles(faceplayer2); 
};


Important to know is:
ai_face() doesn't take the z axis in account.


Last year in august necros gave exactly instructions on how to do it correctly.
Please jump to the thread and read it carefully here:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4246&p=39075&sid=0f5f4444cfb5d86ac9c6efed520aaecb#p39049

Good luck,
Seven

[Max_Salivan]

so hard for me=\