Best way to change cameras in a square room

simstosh

Hi.

I'm thinking what is the best way to change between the four cameras in a square room. I'm using "point and click" mode, by the way.

I have made a square room, divided into four quadrants, with four cameras at the center, each one getting one of the square corners, with a trigger to call the respective camera of each quadrant.

Using the trigger, when I click in one of the corners, the player walks into one of the triggers and change the camera, as it should, but some cameras doesn't get a part of the trigger and it's really hard to get the player walk through the trigger to activate her.

There is a better way to do this? I thought about using Hotspots to make the player go to a marker in the other scene (and change the camera) without the trigger (but maybe in 2D, because I made one using hotspot specific to each camera, but I get a weird effect using it in different screen proportions).

Is it possible to do something like that?

Thanks.

ChrisIceBox

Can't you rotate the triggers so that they're positioned more appropriately?  It's a little hard to visualise what you've got from your description - screenshots would help.

The idea of using hotspots and triggers to change camera is something that was covered in the 2.5D tutorial - have a look and see if it helps, the relevant section starts 42 minutes in.

simstosh

Actually, I've done exactly the same as you do in this tutorial (even before saw it), and after some tweaks, I almost got the effect I want to.

The only problem now is the hotspot size for different screen proportions. For example, I set each hotspot position according to the 16:9 proportion, and I can travel between the cameras as it should. If I set as 4:3, the hotspots doesn't appear (because they are out of the screen proportion), or if I set to 16:10, the hotspots takes almost the entire screen sides. There is a way to set a default size to work with different screen proportions easily?

I will post some screens later when I come back to home..

ChrisIceBox

You can enforce your aspect ratio within the Settings Manager - this will create black borders if the user selects another resolution, to make sure that can always see what you intend.  Other than that, you may have to implement a custom action to use different Hotspots based on the aspect ratio.

simstosh

Well, I ended up using something like this to get the respective aspect ratio, made a script with the possible positions for the Hotspots for each aspect ratio (or at least 16:9/3:2/4:3), and set the correct transform.

Thanks for the tips, by the way.