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[feejo]

What I mean by camera, I mean from where I watch. And if it is possible where I point my view. Cause it will be used in my game.

If it can't be done, well it is a suggestion then.

Thanks

[Starnick]

I'm not sure if there's something like this in Deled (my gut tells me no), but you can approximate it, by testing for points with a light or a small box and placing your camera around that point, or inside the box.

[Paul-Jan]

Storing and retrieving camera position and orientation (for multiple camera's) is NOT supported yet, but is something we will be working on in the very near future.

One way to work around this is using a spot or directional light (because it has both a position and an orientation), making it non-active (to stop it from affecting any lightmaps), and marking it with a custom tag. In your game engine, you can use that tag to detect the spotlight, and read it in as a camera in stead. The major drawback from this approach is that you have to align this light object in DeleD without having WYSIWYG support for what the "camera" is seeing.

What engine are you using? Are you parsing the .DXS files manually, or are you using some other file format? (.X, .3DS, etc) Have you investigated whether that file format supports storage of camera positions?

[feejo]

It is just a reference view, I will take those samples to dark basic pro (video game conception) to position and point the camera those command used will be.

position camera xyz
point camera xyz

It is easier to choose a angle of view in DeleD cause you see what you want.

[Paul-Jan]

Ah, I get it now. Starnick's suggestion makes a lot more sense than mine, then.

The camera system we will implement will make this easy to do, but for now you'll have to improvise. Put a temporary cube where you want the camera to be, put another cube where you want the camera to point to, and use the object inspector to see where their two centers (position and point) are. Sorry, no easier way to do this currently.

[feejo]

Thanks for the good program and support.

[Starnick]

[Paul-Jan]

*lol* Nothing to see there people, move along.

I'm talking static camera's here (storing and retrieving multiple camera positions within your scene).

Animated cameras are of course also a must have, but are not on the immediate planning... let's get a release with basic animation support out the door first.