Moving cockpit camera ?

[Joubarbe]

Hey,

I'd like to put Kha'aks in my next script, but in LU, the cockpit camera of some of them is not right, it's like we have the full ship in the face, and it's impossible to see. How to fix that ? Is it hard... ?

[DrBullwinkle]

Move the cameradummy in the scene.

For example, in the Colossus M0 example in the Ship Tricks tutorials, look for these two lines:

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P 23; B ships\props\cameradummy; C 2; N Bships\props\cameradummy_2b; b
  { 0x2002;  -0; 31717; 383369;  0.000000; 0.000000; 0.000000; 0.000000;  -1;  -1; } // -1

The location of the camera is -0; 31717; 383369. Change those values to move the camera.

[Joubarbe]

Hmm, strange, in the Kha'aks Scout line, I read :

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0;0;0.449875;0.449875;0.404892;SG_SH_M5;4051;80000;40000;114;1;712;0;78;168;202;4209;ships\khaak\cockpits\khaak_m5_cp_scene;-2147483648;1;509;0.00398;0;2;8;4;30;35;30;40;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;3;7;3130;600;650;10;0;48;OBJ_SHIP_M5;1;1;0;771;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;ships\props\invisible_weapon;4;;-1;0;8076;1;1;1;8076;10;0;0;SS_SH_K_M5;

And no "cameradummy" part.

[DrBullwinkle]

Is that from TShips?

You should be looking at the scene file. Read (or watch the videos of) some of the Ship Tricks tutorials for more info about scenes.

[Joubarbe]

So I copied the khaak_M5_scene on my HDD, made modifications, then put it back to my cat:\objects\ships\khaak (no extension, no compression).

No noticeable changes in game. What am I doing wrong here ?

[DrBullwinkle]

I don't know.

However, the reason that the tutorials suggest leaving the edited .pbd on the disk drive is to avoid a variety of possible mistakes that can be made in trying to re-pack the file into a .cat.

Just be sure that the path is correct (matching TShips, but without the object folder, as shown in the tutorials).

[Cycrow]

What cat file did you put it back into, was it the latest numbered cat, or in the mods directory?

If it was in the mods directory, make sure its selected in the game launcher

[Fiesgesicht]

I've had problems with changes not showing ingame when adding files back into the .cats.

Just put them on your disc in the correct directories and all will be fine.

That way, borking them up is not a big deal, as reverting to original file only requires a simple deletion of the new file.