Camera Snapping Problem

[Shrooblord]

@zeOrb;579348

As for behavior itself - it works like expected, this snapping designed for 3rd person games, not isometric. Are you sure you need this? This behavior is basically “bug” with that “isometric” perspective, it’s even turned off by default in TopDown template.

My game isn’t necessarily isometric; you’ll be able to manipulate the camera in any way you want, much like a 3rd person game, really. Zoom, pitch, rotate, move the camera, etc. should all be possible for this.

@TheJamsh;579433

This just looks to me like the camera spring arm is getting caught on geometry, nothing out of the ordinary.

A good solution would be to make sure that your objects don’t block or overlap the ‘Camera’ trace channel.

I tried this already; see my first post:

@Shrooblord;576949

Selecting the conflicting Actor or geometry element and setting their collision property Camera to Overlap or Ignore does not resolve the problem.

It is weird to me that setting it to “Ignore” shouldn’t resolve anything. This is why I came here for help; it seemed to me either a bug or something I’ve been setting up wrong.

Anyway, why is the Spring Arm getting caught on Geometry considered “normal behaviour”? I’d expect the whole purpose of the Spring Arm is to keep the Camera that target distance away from everything, so that it wouldn’t clip through geometry and that kind of thing and also always kept the character (or whatever else it’s attached to) in view.

Is there a minimum arm length I can set that I tell it to “retract” to when geometry gets in its way? I don’t want it to snap to 0 length if it collides with geometry of any kind. Furthermore, isn’t it good design if geometry and objects collide with the camera, so that it won’t clip through things? Or am I interpreting things wrong?
I am aware of this AnswerHub Question:

How to Set a Minimum Length for the Camera Spring Arm

However, the person who asked the question was looking for RTS-style camera that won’t clip through the ground. Now, I’m basically looking for the same thing, but I also don’t want it to clip through, say, mountains. I’m going to want mountains in my game and I need the camera to be able to look “through” the mountains, i.e. pretend they weren’t there and instead look straight ahead as if the mountain weren’t in its way, but I also need it to not clip through the mountain if the player moves the actor that controls the camera so that it physically moves into the same position the mountain is also in. In that instance, I need the mountain geometry to block the camera from moving, or, slide it along its surface, ideally.

Thanks guys. I’ll check out the default camera behaviour when I load up a new project and see if that is any different, and I’ll scour my code for any conflicting code I may have introduced myself. I’ll check the BP character settings like you suggested, zeOrb. I’ll let you know what I find.