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Unity3D Asset Update: Smart Follow for Third Person Camera(s) ‘like in world of warcraft’

Unity3D Asset - Third Person Camera(s)

I’ve updated the Unity3D asset, Third Person Camera(s) to have a simple to use implementation of Smart Follow from World of Warcraft on the Basic Camera Controller.

You can see me demoing off some features here. I forgot to demo the “Only rotate when mouse locked” feature in this video.

Comments?

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Event System X - Automatic Dispatcher and Input Mapper

Check this out

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#!/content/77432

An Event System for Unity3D that allows you to create events that are automatically triggered based on conditions.

Documentation here, includes code for all 15 example scenes.

I’ll be doing an extensive right up about it later on, for now, enjoy the videos

The basics:

Input Remapping:

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Third Person Camera(s) update: Automatic rotation and Side Scrolling Camera Controller

Updates to Third Person Camera(s)

Automatic Rotation

You can now call a method in the Rotation component that allows you to rotate by to to a certain number of degrees on either axis over a period of time. You can provide lerp transformers that manipulate the progress to create smoothing effects.

Input over GUI

I’ve added some functionality to the default input classes that allow you to restrict whether or not they do anything while the cursor is over GUI elements, or areas you designate as off limits. This way you don’t rotate while clicking through your GUI.

More ways to provide Input

I’ve added multiple new ways to apply input values into the Input component to make it easier to work with.

Side Scrolling Camera Controller

This is a more stripped down version of the Basic Camera Controller that doesn’t have the default input functionality. Realistically, this may be what you’re looking for for your non-side scrolling games if you intend to build your own way to provide input. Still has all the basic goodies since it’s made with the existing components

Demonstration of Side Scrolling Camera Controller and the new Automatic Rotation functions.

Todo: Perhaps update automatic rotation on each axis separately. Currently they are bound together, so you can’t rotate 1 axis, and then rotate a different axis half way through. That would be a pretty minor niche to fill, so until someone desires that specifically I’ll leave it. It would also be a simple change for anyone wanting to implement it themselves.

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Alternate Work: Follow Camera

An update to Third Person Camera(s)

I’ve decided at the request of a user to add a new camera controller to meet their needs without them having to build a solution on top of existing solutions.

Follow Camera

The Follow Camera tries to maintain itself behind your character. It does that by either adjusting it’s rotation to match the target’s rotation, or by measuring the difference between positions during updates and calculating a rotation based off that. The camera controller has some features to adjust when the camera rotates to behind your character, and how fast. If you want it instantly, that option is available, or if you want it slowly, that option is also available.

If anyone has suggestions for camera controllers, or if any users of the package need assistance, feel free to contact me here with any questions or requests for assistance.

See the video of it being demonstrated.

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Flipping and Tiling Images with C#

I needed to create seamless textures for backgrounds in my game Maze Gun. So I whipped up a quick program in C# that does it for me.

Pastebin here of the code. 

To use it, you need to create a Console Application Visual Studio project. Then, you need to add reference System.Drawing, and I think there’s another System.Drawing.<something> too. Then, copy paste code into Program.cs, edit the variables at the top, and have fun.

Here’s an image I wanted to tile

Here’s the result of tiling it

Obviously you could do this in Photoshop, but I did it to like 100 images in a few seconds, so it was quicker for me this way.

One thing I will probably add later on is recursion through all child folders to find files. I probably won’t post about it again though, so you’re on your own unless you need help and contact me.

Have fun!

Edit: If you use it, you probably want to change the output from Png to Jpeg in the SaveBitmap part for filesize. Edit Edit: Jpg loses too much quality for my purposes. If you wanna reduce the size, you need to set the quality to high on the graphics object like this

               g.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.High;                g.CompositingQuality = CompositingQuality.HighQuality;                g.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.HighQuality;

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Alternate Work: Camera Controller - Quick video

I put together an extremely low quality video quickly demonstrating some of the features of the basic camera controller and the locking camera controller. See my earlier post if you’re not sure what those are supposed to do.

I’ll release a higher quality video later on with all of the controllers and features documented, bookmarks, and all the fun stuff, as well as a text write up.

I’ll be releasing this on the Unity Asset Store pretty soon.

Let me know what you about it, or if you have any suggestions. I’d love to hear price suggestions as well. Any comments?

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Alternate Work: VirtualTransform, Part 2: Coding Tendency

Get the fixed version here

I had already posted about this class, but I wanted to repost about it after discovering a pretty crippling bug.

There was an issue with the RotateAround method not working. I had actually set it up so that it would only EVER work if the object you were rotating was pointing it’s forward directly at the point it was rotating around. This is because when I designed it, I was thinking of my 3rd Person Camera which is always pointed at a target. Yesterday I discovered that it was horribly wrong, so I wanted to fix it before I release my 3rd Person Camera.

The fix ended up being rather simple thanks to the help of some others. I hope everyone can enjoy it.

 I found another use for this class was when helping to work on another game (not the RPG I’ve had statched away). I wanted to rotate an enemy’s position around a point for a 2D game so that it would act like it was swinging, but I didn’t want to rotate the actual object itself. I used a VirtualTransform and did the rotation inside of that, but then I only applied the position from the VirtualTransform to the actual Transform. That way, the object rotated around a point, but the object itself didn’t rotate.

I’m gonna push forward to get this 3rd Person Camera out of the way. Currently there’s an issue I need to solve with the Headbobbing component. After that, I think all I need to do is implement some cameras (which is easy since it’s just a matter of sticking components together and using them) and maybe do some light refactoring.