[Camera Height]: Can you change it to the height of the unit on terrain?

[Dregonx]

When having a camera following in third person, is it possible to change the height of the camera to

X amount + Current Height of Unit

So say your unit is on top of a cliff or a mountain, the camera will adjust to that height. If he goes off the cliff or mountain, the camera will go down again.

Is this possible, if so how? I haven't found a way so far. I've tried the flying height of unit, but it didn't work.

 

[Chocobo]

http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthread.php?t=90803
http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthread.php?t=98188
http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthread.php?t=55351
....

 

[Viikuna]

Use GetLocationZ to get terrain heigth. Too bad that wc3´s hardcoded camera smoothing system fucks things up, but you can use some function like this to get around it:

function SetCameraZ takes real z returns nothing
    set z = GetCameraField(CAMERA_FIELD_ZOFFSET)+z-GetCameraTargetPositionZ()
    call SetCameraField(CAMERA_FIELD_ZOFFSET,z,- 0.01)
    call SetCameraField(CAMERA_FIELD_ZOFFSET,z,0.01)
endfunction

 

[Dregonx]

Thanks, +Rep to you both.