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Cinematic-like 3rd person camera, very smooth

03-06-2003, 09:04 AM#1
MicrosoftXP
I have seen a lot of topics on hero cameras and I've created a very smooth cinematic like camera demo. This will not swing wildly when the hero is in combat and turns directions and it does not impare vision in any way. It almost looks like a cinematic when your playing and is by far the best 3rd person camera I personally have ever seen. The map is attached here for your viewing pleasure ( i think you have to click 'Save Target As' )

The only drawback is that it currently desyncs in multiplayer. if i ever get the time to find out what the problem is ill be sure to post the fix =)
03-06-2003, 10:37 AM#2
rwxr-xr-x
Very nice. For the most part was actually very pleasing to watch as the camera followed the hero.

Only 2 things I found:
1) Being in the lower left or lower right corner when up against the camera bounds, the camera bobbed back and forth endlessly, even while running around (also when I was fighting the creeps on the far left of the map).

2) With the camera in an ariel view, I found my hero sometimes being stuck at the very top of the screen when fighting creeps and would have to move him to try and correct the view. Using the mouse to scroll up a bit helped sometimes, but not always as the camera would return usually to the same location.

Even with those 2 things (#1 was the most annoying), I say very good job.