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Dralel
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Posted: 5th Aug 2015 02:02
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This is a rather easy request, though I'm not sure if GG currently supports this. But I'm looking for a script on how to restrict the viewing angles of the player. What I mean is, have it so that the player cannot view up and down (y-axis) in full. Maybe only 35 degrees, not the full 45. Is there a way to do this? Thanks.
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Posted: 5th Aug 2015 14:43 Edited at: 5th Aug 2015 19:57
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for this you could read the g_PlayerAngY var in.

g_PlayerAngY - Returns the players Y angle/rotation

so in the main script you would need to check if the value of g_PlayerAngY > 35 or whatever value you want. The only problem I don't think you can write to this variable, not tried it out myself. This var probably only a read var. I will check see if there is a way of doing this , but at the moment I don't think it's possible. Unless the Y angle values can be stricted in the FPE/entity attribs.
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Posted: 6th Aug 2015 12:56
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It sounds like it's possible to check the player angle but not actually stop the player from looking beyond that?
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Posted: 6th Aug 2015 13:31 Edited at: 6th Aug 2015 13:37
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I think that seems to be the case but haven't had much time to check properly, I'll try and find some time tonight as I want to be able to do the same thing.
Meant to ask, is this for 1st person or 3rd person?
[update]- looking at default parameters for 3rd person you can only lock the camera. I don't think this can be done until we have full player camera control. This is one of the feature vote requests I believe.
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Posted: 6th Aug 2015 14:05
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First person.
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