Camera Movement Path (Camera Dolly) Component

[beo6]

Here the current Camera Dolly Component i created.

It consists of 2 Components.

• The Camera Dolly Component itself.
• The Camera Dolly Event Component.

 

Usage

• Extract and place it into your `Souce/Components` directory.
• Add a Camera to your Scene.
• Add a "Empty" Node to your scene that will contain the Camera Spline Path.
• Add "Empty" Nodes inside this CameraPath node that defines the path the camera will move along. (takes the rotation into account as well as long as no "Point Camera At" node is selected.
• Name each "Empty" Node path point "p1", "p2", "p3" and so forth. (subject to change) and order the nodes accordingly.
• At the end this should look something like this in your Scene list: 
  
   
• In the Camera itself with the CameraDolly component added, select the CameraPath node and optionally a node where the camera should point at.
  

 

If you want to do something as soon as the Camera reaches a point along the path, add the CameraDollyEvent Component to one of the path nodes and add it to the Flowgraph.

 

Todo and known issues

• The order of nodes in the Editor is not always the same as returned by the API (see https://www.ultraengine.com/community/topic/65647-moving-entities-in-editor-looses-order-and-cannot-be-moved-to-top/ )

• Its difficult to determine the rotation of points without visualisation.
• Its difficult to guess the path the camera takes along the spline without visualisation.
• Movement speed is not yet Update thread independent. (unlikely but possible, still thanks to Josh for adding `World:GetSpeed()`).
• Rotation might not work (see https://www.ultraengine.com/community/topic/65628-lua-entitygetrotation-always-returns-vec3-000/ )

 

 

Download

CameraDolly.zip

 

[Qulex]

Will you make a c++ version of this?

[beo6]

i haven't thought about that. I was in the impression you can use Lua components with C++ as well.