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Can't get a custom 3rd person camera position?

by Highlander · in Artist Corner · 05/15/2007 (12:12 pm) · 1 replies

Heya guys,

I tried positioning the 3rd person camera back and off to the left of the character using the a dummy object in max named 'cam' but for some reason theres no change in the fps.starter game.


Here's a section of the dmp file that may be relevant:

Bounding box found
Processing Node cam with parent Bip01
Processing Node detail2 with parent Bip01
Processing Node Collision-1 with parent Bip01
Processing Node Col-1 with parent Collision-1
Processing Node LOS-9 with parent Bip01
Processing Node LOSCol-9 with parent LOS-9
Processing Node animation sequence object with parent Scene Root
Sequence animation sequence object found.

Second pass: put shape structure together...

Ignoring node named "Bip01 Footsteps" off subtree "Bip01" because no trailing number.
Ignoring node named "cam" off subtree "Bip01" because no trailing number.

#1
05/15/2007 (12:36 pm)
Try searching for advanced camera...I think all of its modes can be given an offset value, so you could offset it to the side.