Third Person Camera using MiniB3D?

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Captain Wicker (crazy hillbilly)(Posted 2012) [#1]
Hello,

Is there an example of how to create a third person camera with BlitzMax and MiniB3D?


ima747(Posted 2012) [#2]
There are plenty of ways to implement a 3rd person camera, the simplest is probably to just parent it to the mesh of your player character, set it's orientation and you're done, as the player mesh moves it will move it's children (including the camera). To make a *good* 3rd person camera however is quite tricky and game specific (see all the major name brand games that still have crummy cameras... it's not easy to get it right).


Captain Wicker (crazy hillbilly)(Posted 2012) [#3]
Thanks ima747, I find the ParentEntity method very useful :)