Kill cam for mohaa where would I start

[small_sumo]

Kill cam for mohaa where would I start, Can I make it level specific, as in write it into my map script?

Thanks.

[omniscient]

SERENDIPITY
i wanted to make one of these to, thouh it doesnt seem possible

[tltrude]

Ok, I'll bite. What is a Kill cam?

[omniscient]

hehe. "bite"
when u die it replays the last 5 second b4 your death from the killers POV.

[tltrude]

I don't think it is possible, but here is the camera tutorial that comes with the Spearhead editor.

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/tltrude/Temp ... torial.zip

[small_sumo]

Is there a file that says what happens at death? Cos then we could do the killcam thing (wich is just 3rd person I think) or maybe we can even do it in the script, with soemthing like if player health lessthan zero 3rd person scvar blah blah.

[tltrude]

Maybe it could be done with the follow players thing, but that wouldn't replay the kill. I don't think Mohaa even has a record game system.

[bighoss]

Umm I dont know if it will help any, but an idea would be to look at script from COD. Cause in multiplayer there is a kill cam.

[omniscient]

u could make a spectator that has the demo command always on. when u die he plays to you that past 50 pictures or wahtever. (just speculating)

[M&M]

ahhh,so what happens when 2 die at the same moment (or more)?a rocket guy blasts himslef and another ,or some1 throws a grenade and is trapped with the target ,or 2 ppl in different places getting shot at the same time .

u die he plays to you that past 50 pictures or wahtever

besides wouldnt taking this much screenshots slow the game?and if it was a cam that displays a movie wouldnt it slow the game 2? .

[small_sumo]

All I need is some code that makes the player when dead to setthread suchnsuch and in that I will use some code to force 3rdperson for a few seconds then revert back, that should do it.

[dcoshea]

Is it even possible to find out which player shot the person who died via script? I know it could be done if there was an external tool involved. Is there any other way?

Regarding playing back the last 5 seconds, you could have a script which, for each player, records their origin in an array every second, keeping data only for the last 5 seconds. You could then have a camera at the location of the player who died which looks at those origins in order, panning between them and taking a second for each pan (I'm not certain you can control how long it takes to pan but you can certainly look at a location). By the time it's looking at where the shooter shot from, the shooter might have left, though. Perhaps it could look at the location the shot came from for 1 second before doing the 5 second thing, since the shooter is more likely to be visible then. This all depends on being able to find out who the shooter is.

Or does the feature in CoD look from the shooter's perspective at the person who got shot?

Regards,
David

[Bjarne BZR]

Or does the feature in CoD look from the shooter's perspective at the person who got shot?

The CoD replay does an exact replay as it looked 5 seconds before the kill was made, untill the actual kill was made. Its a replay as would you rewind a film.

Not really hard to do in the game, but VERY hard to do ( I imagine ) when you don't have access to the source code.

[dcoshea]

Or does the feature in CoD look from the shooter's perspective at the person who got shot?

The CoD replay does an exact replay as it looked 5 seconds before the kill was made, untill the actual kill was made. Its a replay as would you rewind a film.

As it looked to whom, though, the shooter or the person who died?

Not really hard to do in the game, but VERY hard to do ( I imagine ) when you don't have access to the source code.

Oh well I guess we'll figure something out, even though it won't be anything like CoD

Regards,
David

[Bjarne BZR]

As it looked to whom, though, the shooter or the person who died?

The shooter. Very good learning experience actually.