How to do animated cameras?

[Keytotruth]

@;215433

Hello,
Just did this for a camera shake, maybe you can adapt it to your goal, as you can move camera like a timeline and set your delays :

Thanks, that might come in handy!

@MaxFights;215511

Why don’t don’t you just include a built in camera component on each monster, in the same location. So then when you spawn the monster it has it’s own camera attached to it right where you want it. You can then switch to that camera and use a timeline to animate the position of the camera however you want. And then, just switch back to the players camera and start the fight.

The problem is that if I create a camera attached to the monster it will follow it, but just that. It won’t be able to perform any kind of complex animation like what you would see on Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts.

@Redsett;215694

You could also animate them in a matinee the way you want and parent the cameras to a null(or whatever doesn’t matter). Then translate/rotate the null to the monster and call on the matinee. So the cameras will still be animated relative to their parent.

Edit: I haven’t tested this, just an idea.

That’s actually what I was thinking, but the problem would be… Aren’t Matinee sequences local to the map they are created in? (That they only work in the same map they are created in) So what if I switch maps? Then I wouldn’t be able to use the same animation sequence anywhere else.