3rd person camera controls

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1

Hi

Im pretty new to unity but picking it up quickly.

Im building a 3rd person game and am using the spring follow camera script contained in the unity 3rd person tutorial which works great but i want to be able to use the mouse to look up and down as well as the arrow keys to move.

Ive tried but failed so would be great if someone give me a shove in the right direction as to what i need to add to the script to achieve this.

cheers jules

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There are several ways you can make a “third person camera” and I am sure if you ask ten people you will get ten answers on this question. Here is one approach that I have seen used:

  • A game object for the camera to
    reside on that is not the same game
    object as the character. It can be a
    child of the character or a separate
    game object all together; I have seen
    this both ways. Sounds like you have
    this already.
  • A character controller on the
    character for the arrow keys for
    navigation. This roughly controls the
    position of the camera in space
    (because the camera follows its
    target via the spring script you
    have).
  • A mouse look script on a
    separate game object with the camera
    that controls the orientation (but
    not the position) of the camera. This
    script will accept input from the
    mouse to alter the orientation of the
    camera. There is a mouse look script
    in Standard Assets and there are mouse look
    scripts and many other of these
    scripts on unifycommunity.com. I
    would browse through there first.

What you have described is a little odd because free range to look on a camera that is not first person is a little unusual. What you might consider is a third person where the mouse input actuates a limited ‘spring style’ look of limited degrees but always looks over the shoulder or past the forward of the character. I have also seen configurations where the camera was offset from the character, look forward with or over the shoulder of the character but mouse input resulted in an orbit behind the character. You will just have to determine what’s the correct effect for your game and go with it. There is really no one correct way to do third person although someone on the wiki might have a ready made solution that you really like.

MouseLook plus

Mouse orbit

Smooth mouse look

3

HI there…
I have created an animated character in daz and exported it… works perfectly… only one problem the character moves 5 times faster than the camera, and the camera cant keep up… when i stop moving the character, the camera stops then the character slids back to camera range…
any help here…
thanx

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i have a query…
i have created a character in daz and imported into unity, works perfectly… only one problem… the character moves 5 times faster than camera, now when i stop moving character, the camera stops and the character slids backward to main camera position… this is a 3rd person game …
any help would apprecdiated…
i`m using UNITY 3.5.0f5 pro