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Hey guys, just wondering if anyone can offer me any advice with gettin a 3rd person camera up and running. Feel free to just point me in the right direction of other threads that have already talked about this. Yeah, anyway. Basically I need a camera that will sit a set distance, I'll call this "x" behind my player object, and rotate around the player as and when the player object is rotated by the player. I also need the camera to rotate up and down, but without the player object rotating with it. I've got a couple of sketches to try and help explain what I mean...

Ok, these are arial view.


and these ones are from a side view.


I started working things out using trigonometry, but the formulas have got pretty untidy and kind of complex... (at the moment it needs a different one for each 90 degrees) I'm hoping there's a simpler way *crosses fingers* I've been mainly working on paper so far, so I don't really have any code down as of yet, just trying to understand the concept of it first.

Thanks for your time (hope someone understands what I've babbled on about.)
-Matt

Here try this... it's actually a DB example file that i have modified ever so slightly, so use the arrow keys to move and rotate the player object and the camera will follow and rotate as so, use the shift key to raise the camera and the ctrl key to lower it

i hope this is of some help to you

That's the kind of thing I'm after, thank you. I pasted it and compiled and it does exactly what I asked for, time to have a look through the code and make sure I understand everything. I may post again if there's anything I'm unsure about. Cheers for that, it's much appreciated.
-Matt

try this, I found it in code base and edited it until i got what I needed:

Try my code in this thread..it's not specifically for cameras but it has camera control sub routines that do what your drawings show

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=54340&b=1