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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Problems with SET CAMERA VIEW

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Chest Rockwell
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I am writing a program that uses a 2D interface, which has a resolution of 800,600,32. The 2D interface has a viewport. The top left corner of the viewport is at screen coordinates 77,33. The bottom right corner is at 717,353. I use the set camera view command which reads: SET CAMERA VIEW 2,77,33,717,353. When I execute the program, the 3D view's top left corner is near the center of the screen and the bottom right corner is below the bottom right corner of the physical screen. I have attempted to use different values but no matter what, the 3D camera view will not move any closer to the left side of the screen. This is the only 3D camera in my app so I have even tried assigning camera #0, using my viewport coordinates but get the same results. Has anyone else had this problem?

Thanks,

Kenyon Jones
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ReD_eYe
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Posted: 12th Aug 2003 22:25
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could you post your code? that way we can help properly

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spooky
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Works in U5 Beta3. A lot of camera bugs have been fixed. Try this and see if it compares to my piccy.



above code produces something like this:



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Chest Rockwell
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Thanks for your responses. Sorry that I am just now getting back. I have included my code. I had no problems when executing the camera demos, from the examples. Having said that, I have not installed any patches. Again, thanks for your help.

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Well, I'm not installing old version just to test your code - sorry!

If you are creating a camera 2, what are you doing with camera 0? It will still be full screen 'behind' your new camera 2. Your camera 2 is then like a tv's picture-in-picture function. Suggest you scrap cam2 and just change view of cam0, like my example.

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I've experienced problems with camera 0's view window with patch U5 - when using other cameras at the same time. Camera 0's window sometimes doesn't appear at all!

If you are only using one camera, try using the default one (0), by not supplying a camera number at all. For example:

SET CAMERA VIEW 77,33,717,353

instead of

SET CAMERA VIEW 2,77,33,717,353

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Chest Rockwell
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Spooky and Red Eye,

Thanks to both of you. When I began this thread, I was ignorant to the fact that there even was a patch. This is because I have only had DBPro for a few days. Between installing the patch and eliminating the 2nd camera, the problem has been corrected. Spooky, I also ran your code and it worked perfectly. Now, I shall back my way in and try to determine which thing was causing so much chaos. I am just happy that the command now works properly.

Sincerely,

Kenyon Jones

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I am sorry, thanks to you too, TDK,

Kenyon

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