My Custom Camera System

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Any ways, I finally came around to making my own custom camera system and have finished it, and it's pretty good (it only takes about 3000 memory total and I made it all in about 2.5 hours (editting it to get the numbers right over and over)). Some credit does go to Saiyuki for showing me how to do what I wanted with only the 4 shoulder buttons. (my website doesn't have this updated yet, williampaladin.tripod.com ). Any ways, I remember what OgreNix's was like and how is yours like Doan? Also, I want to see what everyone thinks and build a little anticipation. I'm not sure, but I think both Doan's and OgreNix's are where you hit square and then move the camera around.

L1 - Rotate horizontally clockwise 45 degrees
R1 - Rotate horizontally counterclockwise 45 degrees
L2 - Zoom In/Out from 150 to 210 to 270 to 330 to 390 to 450 and 450 to 390 to 33 to 270 to 210 to 150
R2 - Rotate vertically from 10 to 16 to 22 to 28 to 34 to 40 and 40 to 34 to 28 to 22 to 16 to 10

I have it already set so after events that move the camera it resets itself to what the player had it at (easy: just change the camera without changing the variables then call the camera reset script which checks for the possible camera variable values and changes the camera acoringly). I also have it so the camera stays the same (or I can change it manually by reseting the angles/distances and their variables) when moving from place to place.

The main negatives are: the player can see the edge of visible land and they can't hold any of the buttons to keep zooming/rotating. However, they can change the camera while moving, which is nice.

So how does that sound to everybody?

Also, the other controls are

X - Main Menu
[] - Special Menu
O - Run
/_\ - Talk/Action

(Oh yeah, after playing on my map without using the running, I realized the map's better with the running because without running it took a long time, and I want people to explore freely and not boredomely)

My other question is, what do you think I should do for pushing L3 and R3? (I've no idea, but if I can think of something, that'd be cool)

[Doan the Nado]

You don't have to push square to adjust my camera at all. It's run through action scripts (as I'm sure yours is) that wait for the user to press any L or R button or Start. Here's what my system does:

L1 - Rotate 45 degrees clockwise
R1 - Rotate 45 degrees counter-clockwise
L2 - Lower camera 10 degrees, down to 0
R2 - Raise camera 10 degrees, up to 90
L3 - Zoom camera by 50, down to 100
R3 - Un-zoom camera by 50, up to 600
Start - Return camera to room default

If the player presses L2 when they are at 0 degrees, it plays the "Deny" sound and does nothing. Likewise with R2, L3, and R3. My scripts take up 3300 memory.

So mine does something very similar to what yours does. I'm glad to hear that you got it to work on your own.

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Cool.