Record Camera/Object Path Movement Script

[tipforeveryone]

Features

 

- Record camera path movement by controlling camera itself, what you see is what you get

- Path information can be saved to sperated file for later use

- Attach saved path file to any entity to playback recorded path

- Camera movement can be adjusted for smooth and better path record

- Great for cut scene or object with motion.

 

Demo

 

What I did in this demo:

- Record the first path and save it to path1.lua

- Record the second path and save it to path2.lua

- Create a small box then attach each of saved path files

- Attach path1.lua to Pivot, attach path2.lua to box, watch their combination

 

How to use

- Download and extract 2 lua files to anywhere in your project folder, example: Scripts/Recorder

- Create a Pivot in your map then attach

PlayerControl-PrototypeB.lua

to it

- Create a lua file then choose it as" Record File" in Script tab of the pivot (

This is required!

)

- Run the game

- Press

R

to start/stop record

- Press

P

to playback recorded path

- Press

Esc

to exit

- Create an entity, ex: a box. Attach

ObjectPathMovement.lua

to it

- Choose saved record file (

This is required!

)

- Run the game

- Press

J

to start playback recorded path for the entity

 

Other attributes explaination

PlayerControl-PrototypeB.lua

 

-

Playback Start:

Execute playback process right after the game start, using data from choosen record file

-

Clean Screen:

Hide all HUD elements while playback

-

Both Playback Start and Clean Screen are good for cutscene camera

-

Focus Object:

Drag any entity which you want camera to point at while moving, this will ignore recorded rotation of camera.

 

ObjectPathMovement.lua

 

-

Play Rotation

: if this is false, entity will ignore recorded rotation

ObjectPathMovement.lua

PlayerControl-PrototypeB.lua

[Roland]

Totally off topic. What's that music?

[tipforeveryone]

Totally off topic. What's that music?

Here you are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh1rGVFS4eY

[tipforeveryone]

Finished and updated topic Hope you enjoy!

[Charrua]

great!

 

thank's for sharing

 

just a small note (happens to me :

 

in:

function Script:Record_Mode_Toggle()

 

FileSystem:WriteFile retutn null if lua sandboxing is enabled

a check for a null and an advice would be nice

 

Juan

[tipforeveryone]

Thanks Juan,

 

I can't find anyway to fix this atleast it work well with sanbox off

[Stefos]

Hi,

I have a problem....when doing as you have shown in video and is written in your "How to use" section

I get an error "attempt to index field "recordStream" (a nil value)

line 227 ?

 

Please help!