Re: [Plib-users] 3rd person camera

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Trent Gamblin wrote:
> 
> How can I find out if there is something between the camera and the
> player in my game? I have the absolute position of the player and the
> position of the camera relative to the player. I would like to move
> the camera around to a different point if there is something between
> it and the player, and if that fails, move the camera higher up above
> the player. I've tried stepping back from the players position and
> testing with ssgLOS at each step, but the results are totally messed
> up. I must be doing something wrong. Thanks.

There is code in my Tux game to do that - but it doesn't help as
much as I thought - it's really hard to figure out where to move
the camera in the event that there is something in the line of
sight.

Camera positioning is a MAJOR problem!

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