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- Close behind: a camera behind the controllable character, close to him, allowing the player to see in front of the character<\/li>\n
- Not-so-close behind: same, but a bit further<\/li>\n
- Top-down: see the character from top, reminiscent of my beloved old-school RPGs,<\/li>\n
- Anywhere between the first three<\/li>\n
- Freelook: allow to control the rotation of the camera around the character with the mouse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Now, how could I choose between all these possibilities? Well, let’s ask myself: what do I want the player to feel, to see?<\/p>\nWell, I should add that I don’t really like Freelook 3rd person cameras. I don’t know, this kind of control is not for me, it seems.<\/p>\n
I want the player to be able to see the horizon, and the landscapes. So, top-down is off the list.<\/p>\n
I also want the player to see the feet of his character and what’s on the floor, even close to the character. So, not too close behind.<\/p>\n
But wait, there’s more! What if the player runs down a hill, or climbs a slope? If the camera is too far behind, it will enter the ground when running down a slope, and if it’s too close, you will not be able to see where you’re going when climbing a slope.<\/p>\n
That leaves me two options then:<\/p>\n
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- Carefull adjust the distance and height of the camera to fit all the needs of my terrain and game<\/li>\n
- Have a dynamic camera that doesn’t go into the ground, maybe lifts up a little when doing down, and why not rotating a bit upwards to see where the player is going when going up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
I haven’t really chosen yet, although what I’ve used for now is more of the first idea than the second, but, well I just wanted to share these thoughts.<\/p>\n
As always, my blog articles are rare, not very well thought in advance, and written in the middle of the night, as I’m very tired.<\/p>\n
See you space cowboys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cameras? The great thing about 3D is that you can more or less control the camera like it’s a real camera. I mean, in 2D, from my very short experience, there is not much of a concept of camera, except now in things like Unity, but you just draw the tiles so that it’s on<\/p>\n