360 degree chase camera

[Alien]

Nice work you are doing. Go for it and there soon will be q3mme for nexuiz.

[mand1nga]

Alright, I think I have finished the camera support for demo recording. Now you can put the camera everywhere, rotate it, look anywhere, switch to free looking or chase modes while playing demos.

It requires the following cvars

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set chase_active_direction_step 2      // Camera movement speed on the x/y/z axis
set chase_active_rolling_step 1         // Camera rotation speed

set chase_active_free 0            // Free camera instead of chasing the player
set chase_active_reset 0         // Reset the camera position
set chase_active_direction_x 0         // Move the camera on the x axis (relative to the camera angle)
set chase_active_direction_y 0         // Move the camera on the y axis (relative to the camera angle)
set chase_active_direction_z 0         // Move the camera on the z axis (relative to the camera rotation)

To enable it use the cvar chase_active with a value > 1

Here is the Nexuiz patch. Also I had to modifya line in Darkplaces in order to get mouse input while playing demos, I haven't noticed any side effect of this.

For testing it I used the following binds setup:

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alias +camera_move_forward "set chase_active_direction_x 1"
alias -camera_move_forward "set chase_active_direction_x 0"
alias +camera_move_backward "set chase_active_direction_x -1"
alias -camera_move_backward -camera_move_forward

alias +camera_move_left "set chase_active_direction_y 1"
alias -camera_move_left "set chase_active_direction_y 0"
alias +camera_move_right "set chase_active_direction_y -1"
alias -camera_move_right -camera_move_left

alias +camera_move_up "set chase_active_direction_z 1"
alias -camera_move_up "set chase_active_direction_z 0"
alias +camera_move_down "set chase_active_direction_z -1"
alias -camera_move_down -camera_move_up

alias +camera_roll_right "set chase_active_roll 1"
alias -camera_roll_right "set chase_active_roll 0"
alias +camera_roll_left "set chase_active_roll -1"
alias -camera_roll_left -camera_roll_right

bind h +camera_move_left
bind k +camera_move_right
bind n +camera_move_down
bind m +camera_move_up
bind j +camera_move_backward
bind u +camera_move_forward

bind MOUSE1 +camera_roll_left
bind MOUSE2 +camera_roll_right


Enjoy

All credits to victim[v] and Pythagoras

[mand1nga]

Now see it in action

[GreEn`mArine]

Fantastic work!

Another suggestion would be: could you find out whether your custom csprogs.dat file could be injected into demos recorded on recent SVN servers to get this functionality when playing back your online demos?

Oh, and wow, the patch is really small and clear, nice 1

[mand1nga]

Yes it would be really cool. Yesterday I took a quick read to the demo recording code and I saw that csprogs.dat contents aren't injected into demos, it only injects the csprogs.dat crc somewhere. Whenever I have some free time I'll look how to point this crc to a newer csprogs.dat and see if the demo is still playable.

[Fisume!]

wow, that's great! Can this be added in the next release? Can't wait to make vids with this new system.

Big thumbs up guys!

[GreEn`mArine]

For all the ones who lack the knowledge to compile it and want to try it out, I've created a small pack for Nexuiz v2.4.2.

It contains:
- modified compiled wgl engine for Windows
- modified progs.dat and csprogs.dat
- the configs of Nex SVN needed to bypass csqc check
- camera.cfg (execute that config to get the controls, have a look at the file before to see if you like the binds)

WARNING: I recommend that you do backup your config before you use that patch. Restore your config later if you are done. If you forget it ... well, I don't know what changes a SVN-based DP engine and SVN based gamecode and the defaultvariable settings needed to use this will do to you nex 242 settings...

download here

[GreEn`mArine]

Yes it would be really cool. Yesterday I took a quick read to the demo recording code and I saw that csprogs.dat contents aren't injected into demos, it only injects the csprogs.dat crc somewhere. Whenever I have some free time I'll look how to point this crc to a newer csprogs.dat and see if the demo is still playable.

Apparently div0 recently fixed this bug. In my try-outs of your cam, the csprogs.dat was injected into my demos (recorded on a listen server).

But I can confirm that my online demos also don't have csprogs.dat (but at the time of recording the engine likely still had that bug)

[mand1nga]

I think it was a feature It seems they've chosen to bypass the csprogs.dat check and "try" to run the demo. And yes LH told me this morning that demo files can hold csprogs.dat, so I believe you

the configs of Nex SVN needed to bypass csqc check

How did you achieve that?

Or you did some funny trick, or I should delete some csprogs.dat files in my svn data folder

Now I'm trying to make the look/mouse movements more smoother. Any ideas or suggestions will be appreciated. Basically what I'm doing right now is applying like a delay for quick movements, but there are many ways to do that.

[Alien]

This might be outdated, but: http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/quake/Qdem/dem-1.0.2.html