As part of my bot w/Co-op sub-mod project, I've finished changing tank/tank destroyer driver cameras so that all cameras show more of each tank; but I'd been stupidly working on each camera using a barebones Conquest map. When I put all the vehicles on Co-op maps, any tanks with fixed turrets... their camera positions have not changed
At first I couldn't understand where the game was pulling the old camera view from because in most cases the vehicle's .tweak file only had one camera position line and I'd changed them all. Now, I think the game might be pulling (just for the fixed-turret tanks) the camera position from the vehicle's .con file.
For example, one problem case is called the stug_iv_alt. The camera position I wanted, updated in the .tweak, is shown below:
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate Tank_DriverCamera_geom0
ObjectTemplate.setPosition -0.022833/2.21325/-1.851583
But that's not working. Meanwhile, the line below is from the .con file:
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate Stug_IV_Alt_Mantle
ObjectTemplate.setPosition 0.0880/1.2512/0.5086
If I edited that 'Mantle' position to have the co-ordinates which I wanted, then loaded up a Co-op map and entered this Stug, the camera position would be updated but the gun would have come away from the tank; me and the gun would be floating above the tank
So would any wizards out there know what may be different about these specific tanks, which is causing the game to look somewhere else for a camera position?
Alternatively, would anyone know of a way to add a camera for that 'Mantle' so that one line said where the gun was, another said where the camera was?
Many thanks for any suggestions; everything's going smoothly with the project except this, got me totally stumped.
