How to detect stuffs between character and following camera?

[anon_87183119]

I have a character and a camera behind him, also what this camera is looking at is what the game player is looking at. I tried “smoothfollow” script, but when the character is very close to a building and turns around, the following camera is then inside of the building, and loses the sight of the character (there is a wall between the character and the camera). So if there is a way to detect whether something is between the character and the following camera, I can adjust the position of the camera and avoid above situation.

Any clue?

Thanks.

[anon_85768832]

Cast a ray (Raycast) from your camera to your player, if the ray hits something you’ll know about it and you can respond as necessary or desired.

[anon_87183119]

Thank you very much, HiggB, I will take a try.

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Cast a ray (Raycast) from your camera to your player, if the ray hits something you’ll know about it and you can respond as necessary or desired.

[lankoski]

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I have a character and a camera behind him, also what this camera is looking at is what the game player is looking at. I tried “smoothfollow” script, but when the character is very close to a building and turns around, the following camera is then inside of the building, and loses the sight of the character (there is a wall between the character and the camera). So if there is a way to detect whether something is between the character and the following camera, I can adjust the position of the camera and avoid above situation.

We use something alike in Lies and Seductions (zooming closer if a wall is between the camera and PC). You can get the source and take a look ( http://mlab.taik.fi/~plankosk/blog/?p=308, CameraController.cs)