Is there a way to set the camera origin to a Ghoul2 tag?

[Scarlett]

I've had an idea for a while, though i'm not sure how well it'll turn out. I'm starting to work on fixing up first person, because it's just horrible right now. Especially with the lightsaber. I want to make it so when we do flips, rolls, saber spin attacks, etc. the camera will turn with it. There's two ways i'm thinking this could be done:

 

(1) I could set the camera to turn, manually, for every bloody animation then still have to worry about the animation being interupted. If that happened then.. ugh, it'd just be a mess.

 

(2) I could set the camera location to a tag on the player model. Making it so, if the tag turns so will the camera. It's be all automatic, which would be the simple, easy way. But then, i kind of doubt that's possible...

 

...does anyone know if it is?

 

Amature that i am, the Ghoul2 stuff seems really complicated. Though i'm fairly persistant, i might figure it out within a month... but i just thought i'd ask to save some time.

[Wudan]

razorace did something like this, if I understand you right. I know about the format, but he's the wizard on the code ...

[Scarlett]

Really? That's good to hear, i'll ask him about it... unless he happens to reply here first.

 

The downside to doing it like that though, is that if there's ever a glitch in the animation then it'd probably disorient the view too... i don't know though. Morrowind seemed to do it that way with the third person view, and that was a slight problem i found with that. The camera repositioned itself and jittered at times, depending on the animation or on the occasional glitch... i thought that was a bit annoying.

[razorace]

Yeah, I smoothed it out for the most part with a eye range allower and manual "patching" for animations that totally jump the camera around.