Fixed camera watching moving things - Super Monkey Ball Fight

Questions & Answers
1

Hi :slight_smile:

I’ve found a really awesome camera script that I’m now butchering, and I’m just wondering if i can make the camera fixed while it follows targets (The camera was originally for a SSB camera - zoom in on close together targets, and out when further apart) (Which works well in 2d, but i’d like to put it in 3d, think - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y83pOQO4tbk&feature=related. Currently the camera rotates around the object, in a circle, is there anyways I can lock it, or limit its movement?

Thanks

var target : Transform;
var target2 : Transform;

function LateUpdate () 

{

var targetsHeading: Vector3 = target2.position - target.position;

var perp: Vector3 = Vector3.Cross(targetsHeading,

Vector3.up);
//point looked at between
var halfway: Vector3 = (target.position + target2.position) *
0.5;

var dist: float = Vector3.Distance(target.position,

target2.position);

var distScale: float = -2.3;

     
      var camHeight: float =  4.5;
      
      var minDistance: float = 0.1; // Or whatever...
      
      camera.transform.position = halfway + perp.normalized * (dist *

distScale + minDistance) + Vector3.up

  • camHeight;

    transform.LookAt(halfway);

           }

Original thread here - http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/41311-Camera-Help

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/41076-Solved-Camera-To-follow-and-rotate-around-2-objects

2

If you want to manually drag the target object into the inspector of Unity, it should be this: http://screensnapr.com/e/mc50pJ.jpg

public Transform target;

transform.LookAt(target);

For more information check this: http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/Transform.LookAt.html