Hi, I am creating a third person game which involves two playable character. I am currently having a problem with making the camera fixed but still follow the player. So when the game starts the camera is positioned behind and a little to the right of the player and when the player turns left, righ…

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just a thought… if you just need a fixed rotation at all times, you might find it easier and more performance efficient to use one world camera instead of two Character-based camera component. if I understand what you are looking for, I’d set up a WorldCamera BP (with Spring Arm to give you the off…

Thank you for the help, I added a new camera to the world but am struggling with the blueprint event tick, it does not allow me to use get actor location

… the quick-but-less-efficient-way-that-is good-enough-for-prototyping… use Get Player Pawn and plug it into the actor reference in Get Actor Location (getting references between actors takes a bit of getting used to… definitely worth spending a couple of hours studying… then you’ll know how to do …

I created a camera blueprint and added the camera to the world I have no idea how to add the blueprints together [232770-screenshot-2018-03-05-141058.png]

attach the blue e (actor reference) in Get Player Pawn to the blue circle in Get Actor Location attach the yellow pin (vector) to Set Actor Location… attach white wire Tick to white wire in Set Actor Location *** yes, it seems utterly incomprehensible at first… with a bit of study you’ll get very …

I have done that, what do I do next? [232792-screenshot-2018-03-05-143516.png]

remember to attach white wire Tick to white wire in Set Actor Location also, drag your camera component on top of the spring arm component… set the spring arm length to your taste…

Ok I have done that, However the spring arm could only go inside the camera component. So I made a new Actor BP and added a camera so I could put the camera inside the spring arm, would that still work? [232795-screenshot-2018-03-05-151655.png]

it looks right… the spring arm is now a parent of the camera: In your custom camera BP, use Begin Play and Set View Target with Blend to set this actor as the active camera -set the spring arm length -put the camera BP into your level (anywhere is ok, it’s BP will set its world location)

I have begin play but I cannot find set view Target

How to create a fixed camera that follows player

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EmilyBec (EmilyBec) March 5, 2018, 2:39pm 7

I have done that, what do I do next?