Birds Eye Camera & Rotating Camera & In Game Securit

[Team Xlink]

Hello.

I have three questions today.

How would I go about creating a birds eye view type camera via engine code?

We can move the chasecam view in all directions. Has anyone made one that rotates around and above/below the player on all axis's.


This last question is something I think isn't going to be very likely.

I want to do this:

I want to have in game security camera type "things".

Where you would have the "camera" be it an entity or what not and then whatever that sees you see on a "screen" somewhere else in the map.

[Downsider]

For the security camera thing, look at the reflection code for an example as to how something like that would work. You would also look at the functions for rendering to a texture on whatever API you're working with.

As far as a bird's eye view goes, it's just some simple math and collisiony stuff to move the camera to the correct position; it's not complicated.. An algorithm to find the angle between two points in 3d space seems like all you would need. Then just chuck the chase camera at any position and face it toward the point of interest.

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