Third Person Camera from below

[ChristianWiele]

Hi,

for my fly ability I like the camera to look from below the character. The default behavior is that the camera stops at the height of the character's transform, and starts zooming in. How can I change this behavior so that the camera is allowed to move down?

Regards, Christian

 

[Andrew]

You can use a state preset to modify the CameraController's "Anchor Offset" property, in your case to decrease the Y value.

 

[ChristianWiele]

Nope, this does not work as the anchor cannot become negative / has no effect for negative values.

 

[ChristianWiele]

It's not even possible to define an anchor that is lower than the character. It will always limit the y value for the camera to 0.

 

[Andrew]

Ah sorry, for third person you're right. The built-in ThirdPerson view type clamps the camera's y position - you can see this at the bottom of the ThirdPerson.Move function. So you probably want to just create a custom ViewType which does everything the same as ThirdPerson except for this y clamping.