yes i'm using Max2Gs , and it exports all the cameras perfectly. But it doesnt export them as entities , it exports them as cameras (like when you right click on a wed window and select add position and sets a camera) , but i dont see an option to add any actions to them. So I'm not sure if there's something i'm doing differently or if i'm just missing something. Here's a pic of a very small and basic test level , you can see the cams i have on there , it goes to camera1 when i run it , but dont really understand how to implement the code because i cant set an action for the cameras when i right click them .

http://home.rgv.rr.com/demonicdynasty/temp.html

Unless there's a way to access a position, via cscript, and assign something to it, then you'll have to either make sure to include your camera/trigger entities at the camera's position before exporting or go through and replace all of the positions with them in WED.

A quicker way of handling that is to change out one of the cameras in WED (or place an entity at nearly the exact location of the camera) and then pop open the WMP with a text editor. You should be able to see clearly how the entity position is identified compared to a camera. Then just run a Find/Replace Routine and reopen in WED. You should now have the appropriate entities where the cameras used to be. Assign the camera action to them (again you can do that in the text editor if you feel comfortable with it), and you are good to go.

Works well with other things too - especially if you have a lot of entities to change out for one reason or another.

Would it be possible to do something like , have an invisible model used for the trigger , and have the trigger set view to one of the cameras already in the level , say if coliision with me , set view = cam01 , and make another one for camera 2 that would say if collision with me , set view = cam02. So that it would just point to use the other cam as oppossed to creating one.

Nothing gets created in the script....it takes what you've placed in the level and uses the skill1 values to keep everything paired up and working right. You can also use any kind of entity that can have an action assigned to it for the camera, so that means models, map entities, or sprites.

I think the only way you can get access to an actual "position" would be to use "str_for_entname"(I think that's it) to get the name of the position(pos_000, pos,001, etc) and get that into the array in the "set_cam" action some how.

I think it would be less hassle to simply replace the positions themselves with an entity and use the scripts as designed. Since you are using MAX2GS, I know you can export non-level block models and sprites with the level itself, or you can do it like myrlyn68 suggested.

Well I did what Myrlyn68 sujested , but the cameras are nowhere close to the original ones , the script does work though , as cameras do change , but things dont look right at all , I guess i'll keep on fiddling with it.

Sometimes during runtime you'll find that a camera will get skipped when there's no reason for it to. I don't know why it does this, but the way to fix it is to group all of your cameras and triggers together, save, delete the group, update entities build, undo to undelete them, and then update entities again. The missing camera will magically work again. It did it to me when I was creating the demo and that was the first time it had happened in quite some time.

I completely gutted this and updated the scripts to more reflect that used in The Disenfranchised, as well as newer engine commands (time_step and c_instructions although it is setup to still use the equivalent of the old ent_move). It still lacks the smooth transition from node to node that the game has, but this is a bit better.

I also updated the controls, animation, and player's physics scripts so they're consistent with those found in the 3rd person cameras I have floating around. I also reduced the test level play area and the number of cameras (from 7 to 3).

Finally, you can set all of your camera parameters from WED, now.

http://www.geocities.com/hainesrs/tester3.zip

how do you use this code?
what do i need to place in med and had what action to what?