Comments on: Just Looking Around

By: Frank Ramirez

Frank Ramirez — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 12:59:14 +0000

Thanks so much for this Rune. I used this script in our Unity iOS Game: Dragon Eggs. I used it to make the mama dragon look at dangerous obstacles when nearby and at the baby egg when a lower .effect value if there weren’t any. This script really helped bring the character to life. Everyone was so amazed the first time I ran this script.

Also because our dragon model node was rotated slightly i had to put this code at the top of HeadLookController.Start()
Vector3 lookVector = Vector3.forward;
headUpVector = rootNode.InverseTransformDirection(Vector3.up);
headLookVector = rootNode.InverseTransformDirection(lookVector);

Dragon Eggs Trailer http://goo.gl/HrSOH
Dragon Eggs iPhone http://goo.gl/vSVLY
Dragon Eggs iPad http://goo.gl/j7LPk

By: Rune Skovbo Johansen

Rune Skovbo Johansen — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:32:41 +0000

@Michael: The Head Look Controller was not made for being used for a first person camera. Nevertheless you may get better responsiveness by tweaking the Responsiveness variables in the component.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:47:34 +0000

I hope I will get an answer as this was first posted 2 years ago.
I’m making a first person rpg at the moment. I was trying to make it so player can see characters whole body while moving camera around, so it’s not only pair of hands glued to the main camera. At first I just sticked camera under one of head points (I’m temporarily using Hero model) and scripted it so it was responding to mouse moves at Y axis. It worked when placed properly but had 2 flaws while moving – sometimes I saw the model from the inside due to animations + the camera was shaking and making me nauseous.

Then I found your script and thought a way to use it. I used the ball (without any graphics) glued to main character object, made it go up and down from -0.1f to 3f while the mouse is moving on Y axis. Then I copied the whole spine + neck + head – without the animations and model graphics and added a camera. In the result camera acts as it should – stares at invisible mouse-controlled ball and is not affected by animations – though player may see his character moving.

The only problem is – and I don’t know both unity and C# as well to found it out myself – that there is this little lag between mouse move and head/camera move. While it’s absolutely realistic I don’t like it. I’d rather want the look to be fluent like in FPS games.
If you’re reading this and can help me OR I made something unclear – please respond to my email. Thanks in advance!

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