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Newcomers DBPro Corner / camera question

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Tim Ballisto

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Posted: 15th Feb 2004 23:39

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in dbc, how do you get the camera to follow an object in the way it does in the free flight help example?

(I put the code for that one in the scouce attachment)

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sponge008

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Posted: 16th Feb 2004 00:57 Edited at: 16th Feb 2004 00:58

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Try the following:

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xpos=object position x(1)
ypos=object position y(1)
zpos=object position z(1)
xang=object angle x(1)
yang=object angle y(1)
zang=object angle z(1)
position camera xpos,ypos,zpos-(object 1 radius/length/whatever)
rotate camera xang,yang,zang

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