Camera Offset in Developer Help

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May 10 2002, 4:54 pm
What would I use to do this? I want it so that the player is not in the middle of the screen. I want it 3 tiles south.
I don't want you to give me the code just tell me what to look up.
#1 May 10 2002, 5:10 pm
Try either client.eye or lazy_eye.
#2 May 10 2002, 5:30 pm
In response to WizDragon (#1)
I tried client.eye I used this
client.eye=(src.x,src.y-3,src.z)

and
client.eye=pixel_y-=108

Both got errors.
And I can't see how you'd use lazy_eye to make it fixed.
#3 May 10 2002, 6:37 pm
In response to BurningIce (#2)
you mean
client
lazy_eye = 3
..()


?
- RaeKwon
#4 May 11 2002, 7:20 am
In response to BurningIce (#2)
You're forgetting to add the locate proc. Should look like client.eye = locate(x,y-3,z).
#5 May 11 2002, 7:29 am
 
mob/Move()
 ..()
 if(client) // just in case
  client.eye = locate(x,y-3,z)
//Sadly this formula does not care about which way the mob is facing


Exadv1
#6 May 11 2002, 3:34 pm
In response to WizDragon (#4)
How do you make the camera move with you? I don't want it just stationary.
#7 May 13 2002, 3:35 pm
In response to BurningIce (#6)
Sorry I'm bumping this but it's kind of important.
#8 May 13 2002, 4:14 pm
In response to BurningIce (#7)
2 days is reasonable. However, Exadv1 had the right idea. You update the position of the eye whenever the mob moves. In other words, you change the eye within Move(). (Although, I tend to use client.Move() instead of mob.Move() just because I like to keep my client things together. *shrug*)
#9 May 16 2002, 1:59 pm
In response to BurningIce (#6)
BurningIce wrote:
How do you make the camera move with you? I don't want it just stationary.

I seemed to have taken down s_eye off the hub, but I put it back up there.

http://www.byond.com/hub/Spuzzum/s_eye

There was probably a good reason why I took it down, but I can't remember it right now. Anyway, that allows you to specify a forward offset to the client's screen; also, it allows you to prevent the client from seeing the surrounding blackness at the edge of the map.
#10 May 16 2002, 2:47 pm
In response to Spuzzum (#9)
Mabey it was because Keep_Eye() doesn't work.
#11 May 16 2002, 6:41 pm
In response to BurningIce (#10)
Mabey it was because Keep_Eye() doesn't work.

It works just fine for me, so you must be doing something wrong.

You *must* put that KEEP_EYE definition at the top of your DME file. It will not work if you do not put it above the #include of s_eye, and s_eye is #included in the DME file.