Floating Camera

[Quake Matt]

Hi, guys!

I'm going to write a tutorial for a friend about making a floating camera, like you'd get in a spectator mode, but I'm not sure if my way is the right way.

The most obvious way to fly would be to use movetype_fly, but I never got it to work properly. Instead, I left the player on the regular walking movetype and just offset gravity every prethink, making sure to keep fl_onground in check. It works nicely as far as I can tell, but I'm a bit concerned about the effect it'd have on some engines and also how well it'd behave in multiplayer.

As for controls, I hijacked the player's velocity vector every frame to 'read' keypresses. This is handy because I can then write my own movement system but, again, is it the best way?

Thanks in advance!

[FrikaC]

[Quake Matt]

I think I'd rather not let the player go through walls, though. Is it possible to use movetype_fly at all, or is that restricted only to non-player entities?

[Spike]

[Quake Matt]

[FrikaC]

[Spike]

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