Stop Camara snap to center of object ? | Forums

[rlmergeuser]

Is there anyway to stop the camera snapping to the center of the object you select. Farcry2's editor allows you turn it off but I can't find that option anywhere in this editor.

[rlmergeuser]

Why are you comparing Far Cry 2 to Trials Evo? I know they're both made by Ubisoft-owned studios, but... ah, whatever.

It *might* be possible to rotate the camera a set amount via an Object Position Event, but I'm not certain... if I wanted the camera to look at an object, but offset itself, I would probably just make it face a Dummy Object that is glued to your choice object.

[emerica6708]

I think he's talking about when you select an object in the editor then place it somewhere the cursor has moved to the center of the object. It really gets on my nerves too, one time I had two long poles right beside each other and I had the camera at right at the top of both of them, I selected the top of the right pole and moved it just a bit, then went to select the other pole and the cursor and camera had changed so that the camera had almost the entire pole in view and the cursor was right on the center of the pole.

I could be wrong, but that's what it sounded like he was talking about to me.

[rlmergeuser]

That is a bit annoying. I don't recall HD doing that...

[rlmergeuser]

I hate that too. especially if your working with a big object, like a group or glue group, and you need to line it up to something else. You have to hold down the LB button to go see if your close enough. Nope not close enough. Let go of LB so you can move your object a little bit, and it sends you back to the center a mile away. Move it a little. Hold LB, go check. Nope still not close enough. Rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat. Very annoying!!!

[Euphoric Fusion]

^^^ this ^^^
A real pain when trying to line up large terrain textures.

[rlmergeuser]

That's what I'm talkin' about. I hope they can come up with a fix, I can't think of a time when I would want it to toggle to center of object.

[rlmergeuser]

Sometimes it helps if you back the camera away a bit first. You can also adjust the view after you grab the object (though this doesn't always work right). Do do that, click on the object, then hold in LB while you move the camera around. It still can do some annoying self-adjusting, but zooming out a bit helps.

[rlmergeuser]

The railroad tower is the worst. The pivot is all the way at the bottom and it is a fairly tall tower. When your trying to line up "power lines" to the top of it, is painstaking. Stupid cam keeps making you look at the bottom! I read or heard somewhere that you can change an objects pivot point, but don't remember how.

[Euphoric Fusion]

Glue a dummy object to it and when you select the pieces and press up on dpad you can edit the pivot.