3D character camera control

[JustStupid]

Hi,

Just had a quick look and don't think this question has been answered before.
I'm trying to get my camera to follow a character so the camera being just
positioned above and slighly behind and pointed down so you can see whats in
front of the character and still see its head. I've been playing around with
trying with the setCameraChild method and get the camera to move with the
character but when I rotate the character (using the arrow keys) the camera
doesn't rotate to show the new view. Does anyone know how this could be
achieved? Sample code will be a big bonus!!

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Brenden :camera;

[JustStupid]

Update:

Seem to be able to associate the camera with the character but the camera is
not sticking with the character when it moves. Heres the code I have now:

characterCam = MyWorld.camera[1]
characterCam.transform.position = character.worldposition + vector (0,0,5)
characterCam.transform.rotation = vector(90,0,180)
character.addChild(characterCam)

Any ideas??

[danieloizo1]

Hi,

i made a camera following a character this way:
1. i made 3 boxes invisible(box1.shader.blend = 0), box1 over the character
,box2 behind the character and box3 is intepolateing to box1

on exitframe
characterrotate = character.transform.rotation.z -- characterrotate is a var
box2.transform.position.y = character.transform.position.y -- character is
the moveing character
box2.transform.position.x = character.transform.position.x -250 --moves
box2 250 units behind character
box2.rotate(0,0,characterrotate,character)

box1.transform.position.z = character.transform.position.z + 30 -- moves
box1 30 units above character
box1.transform.position.y = character.transform.position.y
box1.transform.position.x = character.transform.position.x

camera1.transform.interpolateto(box2.transform,30) --camera interpolates to
box 2
box3.transform.interpolateto(box1.transform,15)
camera1.pointat(box3, vector(0,0,1)) -- camera points at box 3 witch is
interpolateing to box 1
end

2. the camera is using "interpolateto" becouse i dont want the camera to be
fixed on the box, if the camera is fixed on the box it can result in a "noisy"
movement of the camera( the camera may go up and down when the character
follows a rough terrain)
the camera point's at box3 to follow the charater in a more natural manner.

Now if you move the characterter camera will follow and always point on on him.

hope i made no mistakes in the script and sorry for my bad english.

Daniel.