Need Help Limiting Camera Boom Movement

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Hello, I’m setting up a free-look for my character. I’m using the default 3rd person template. I have it all working great but I would like to limit the (YAW) movement. I have tried all day to figure this out but no luck. I almost had it working but I have run into a problem because the camera boom gives me numbers -179 to 179. By default my character and camera boom is facing 0/yaw so everything works fine. When I rotate 180 degrees and press my free-look button the camera boom doesn’t start at 0 so it messes up everything. I can’t clamp it unless there is a way for the camera boom to start out at 0 yaw no mater what way the character is facing after I press my free-look button (Alt). Anyone have an idea how to clamp this.

I would like my character to only look 160 degrees behind each side.

This is how I’m getting the camera boom YAW

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This is how I’m free-looking

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And to trigger the free-look on and off I’m just using the Alt key right now to change the “FreeLook?” Boolean to true on press and false on release.

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Thanks to all that read this :slight_smile:

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Also looking for help with this!

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I believe, i can help…

This is my function, it switches between Front/Back view of the character. (Just use higher value in InRange(Max) than 1.0… 1.5 should do. (just a bug fix i found out after posting the image))

https://forums.unrealengine.com/filedata/fetch?id=1425535

-> Topic in question

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Thanks for the help, all I had to do was use the “dot” with my setup and I was able to figure it out.