Hello! I was making a first person shooter game and I was working on an Aiming or ADS system. I went with the two cameras option but when the cameras switch, the ADS camera is in the ground? I went back in the blueprint and the camera is clearly on the gun attached to a socket.
Why is this happening and how can I fix this? Is it even possible to make an ADS system this way or is there a better way?
Thanks!
It doesn’t matter where the ADS camera is in the viewport, that’s not where it will be. You told it to sit inside the skeletal mesh’s “camera” socket and that will take priority.
Check your skeletal mesh and see if you have the “camera” socket placed in the right location there.
Edit: If it is in the correct location, then you might need to zero out those transform location numbers in your viewpoint since they take the location of the socket and THEN add the requested transform. Right now according to that Z transform you’re instructing the camera to hover 361 unreal units below the socket location, which may well explain why it’s sitting inside the ground at the moment.
Hey there. I have a picture of where my socket is and I keep changing it but the camera is stuck in a weird angle on the back. Here are my pictures:
Oh, you’re using the wrong command.
Activate is telling it “switch this camera on”, which is fine but the AK isn’t your character. When the game tries to find an active camera on your character it will never use one that’s part of a different object.
Use the switch view target with blend command instead. You’ll need a reference to the camera and a reference to the controller.
Edit: Just do the same process backwards (with a reference to the camera component on your character) to revert to the normal camera, you won’t need to use activate and deactivate at all if you use switch view target.
So what do I put on the this pin? It says my camera can’t go in the pin
Oh sorry, your setup is slightly different to mine. You’re using a camera component on the AK, wheras I’m using a separate camera object.
Just plug in your AK object itself in there and if it has only one active camera component on it, that’s what the engine will use. I just tested it that way in my project and it seems to work. [Edit: So just plug in AKGun directly into that pin]
Edit: And use a reference back to the character, not the character’s camera component to switch it back again.
So I tried that but it shows me this angle. I tried moving the cameras but that didn’t work 
Your socket or camera is likely on the wrong rotation. You can try rotating the socket in the skeletal view (easier if you add a preview option) but personally I find it easier to just go into the viewport window and rotate it there until it’s facing the correct direction.
So I rotated everything and it still looks like the picture above
Untick use pawn control rotation
Did it and it is still the same
Also just on an unrelated note, it’s really lucky I’ve been helping with your answer. I found your question searching for a slightly different problem with my project (didn’t find any solutions though), and when I switched my setup over to a camera component like yours to test fixes for your question I discovered it just happened to fix my other problem I was having. So thanks. 
Weird… Can you send me some screenshots of relevant screens, like the viewport and the blueprint you’re using? The basic setup should be fine, it’s exactly what I’m using and it’s working perfectly on my system so there must be some tiny thing somewhere that we’re missing.
Here’s how everything’s set up on mine and you can see it’s working.
Here is my stuff:
Ha Ha. Thanks so much for helping me lol!
Thanks, can I also have a look at the current viewport window for the ADSCam component of Gun_AK47?
Here is my stuff:
Thanks. Here are what I think are likely causes of problems in descending order of probability.
Can’t spot anything else immediately that looks wrong.
