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Client Side|User Interface: Third Person
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 8:03 am
by Sared Kilvan
Affects: Client Side/User Interface
Summary: Bring back regular first-person view.
Suggestion: I get the impression that somewhere along the line, the first-person camera made a fool of himself and got kicked out the door. The ability to really 'look a person in the eye' is much more immersive than watching my character do so. To get to this, the user shouldn't have to set up a custom camera script to emulate this effect (not very cleanly at that), particularly when there is a pre-existing function in the game that does it already.
Implementation: Let "cg_thirdPerson !" do it's job.
References: Console commands, base cg_thirdperson.
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 8:08 am
by Amoné Fayden
If it can be done easily, then why not.
There already is a 1st/3rd person view toggle in base JKA as seen in the controls options. However it only works when the player has a blaster equiped.
If this could be extended to when Melee or a Lightsaber is equipped then problem solved.
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 1:18 pm
by Oberon
Amoné Fayden wrote:
If this could be extended to when Melee or a Lightsaber is equipped then problem solved.
It's done so in MB2, so it shouldn't be too bad.
I've always lowered my FOV to examine characters closely. But I suppose this would be good too.
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 2:01 pm
by Elu Dako
I know that /cg_thirdpersonrange <Value> adjusts the range of the camera from you, if you put a low enough value (default being 80) it can sort of double as a first person view, even though I think you are just above the head of your model.
Hope that helps.
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 2:55 am
by Alara
Think there have already been a couple suggestions on this. The keyword there was: Trueview. It does exactly this.
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 10:44 am
by Illrian Damaris
It shouldn't be too hard to bring in, seeing how there is actually a mod on JK3Files that already does this exact thing. However I'm unsure if it does it for when you're using melee..
I would actually like to see this brought in, as it would help with feeling you're actually you're character.
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 3:30 pm
by Rash Loist
Trueview was already suggested by me a long time ago, Soh said it was on his to-do list if I remember correctly but i'm glad this could serve as a reminder.
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 5:05 pm
by Ru Seentras
Illrian Damaris wrote:It shouldn't be too hard to bring in, seeing how there is actually a mod on JK3Files that already does this exact thing. However I'm unsure if it does it for when you're using melee..
I would actually like to see this brought in, as it would help with feeling you're actually you're character.
I remember seeing this the other day while browsing the jk3files site. I'd like to see this implemented as an option.