Help with making a dynamic camera for 3rd person game help.

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Hi guys,

I need some help again.
I want to create a camera system that pulls in and out in world space, depending on the location of the player in world space.

For example, Little Nightmares Gameplay Walkthrough FULL GAME (no commentary) - YouTube

In little nightmares. If the player walks forward, the camera moves out more, but if they walk backwards instead, the camera pulls in.

From all my web searching I found this:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/comm…r)-Early-Demo=

This would have been perfect, but unfortunately the creator stopped working on it.

There are two things I’m trying to figure out.

  • How to do distance based blending on a camera that tracks the player (like the linked little nightmares video)
  • How to limit player control during the camera sequence

I have followed a range of youtube tutorials, but I have yet to find or make anything that truly does what I want it to do.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Hi man,
its quite simple.

For blend camera positions.
The hard part is define the position and rotation of the camera, but lets say that you place in your blueprint 2 scene component.
One close , one far away from character.
you can blend from these 2 position, getting theyr location and using LerpVector,
This node use a value from 0, to 1 to blend the vectors, so i used some component to show you that you can get the location of player and a position where you want that camera is closeup.
Get the difference between them and get the Lenght , greater the result is, greater the distance from the focal point.
so Dividing it you can have a valuei to put in the lerp.