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Creating custom cameras in runtime

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Hello,

I'm working in a freeware project where I intend to attach a camera to an AI object. I know this can be done during mission design but I couldn't find any API to do it in runtime.

If it is not possible as such, my plan B is to test creating a fixed custom camera and update its position each frame. But, again, I couldn't find any methods to create or change a camera's position in runtime. However, I know that it is possible, as some programs like FSRecorder are capable of doing this.

Has any of you done any research about this? It would save me a lot of research time...
 
Your ideas lead into an area that some may choose not to help with. I have found over the years that when you have a great idea you will only receive resistance to the idea. Most developers trump on about proprietary this or my idea that and simply dont share any of the good stuff. Any good methods of development will be kept under the rug and all the rubbish will be presented on forums like this as gold. As a real question on here and it will never be answered.
 
atorque said:
Your ideas lead into an area that some may choose not to help with. I have found over the years that when you have a great idea you will only receive resistance to the idea. Most developers trump on about proprietary this or my idea that and simply dont share any of the good stuff. Any good methods of development will be kept under the rug and all the rubbish will be presented on forums like this as gold. As a real question on here and it will never be answered.
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Oh ye of little faith. Merry Christmas.
 
atorque said:
Your ideas lead into an area that some may choose not to help with. I have found over the years that when you have a great idea you will only receive resistance to the idea. Most developers trump on about proprietary this or my idea that and simply dont share any of the good stuff. Any good methods of development will be kept under the rug and all the rubbish will be presented on forums like this as gold. As a real question on here and it will never be answered.
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I am not sure that is true. For the most part people do try and help. I guess some people will have things they don't share. I don't make the code for ADE or my other tools public - do that mean I am being unhelpful? If someone asks how something can be done I generally try to offer guidance and share the knowledge that I have. I think that is true of most people here.

I think you are being a bit hard on us. However if you have any specific instances where folks have genuinely not been helpful then please do pm me about it.
 
I think its more a case of the geniuses who have accomplished what some of us wish to do simply dont frequent FSDev. Although i suspect 1 or 2 do and are not sharing some bits that many would love to know (like myself still bashing my head away at finding IDirect3DTexture9 surfaces that i want to draw to)...
 
Hi,

If your AIobject is an aircraft or an hellicopter, the camera.cfg file allows to associate cameras with ai objects. This camera can eventually be moved using SimConnect APIs.

So, I suppose that if you ask, you are not dealing with an aircraft but with a boat or a miscelaneous object.

Personnaly, I would create what I call a shadow object : it is define as an aircraft in SimObjects but with an invisible model. Being an aircraft, a view for this object exists in the View mode/Air traffic.

Now, if you synchronize the position of this shadow object with the object for which you need a camera ... it is done.
 
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