The Spectator Camera is a new camera mapped to the END key that allows the player to freely move about the track. When END is initially pushed the closest tracking camera to the car is activated. Each consecutive END button press gets the next tracking cam. If another camera is activated, the next time the Spectator Camera is entered, the closest tracking camera to the car is activated again. When Spectator Cam is activated FreeMove is automatically turned on and when another camera is activated FreeMove is forced off. Based on how many times END was hit before another camera was entered, the closest camera or the next camera will be retrieved. To make it easy for the player to move around in a trackside camera the spline are not active when spectator cam is being used.
Swingman Camera
The swingman camera
originally used hard coded speeds for relative yaw, pitch, roll, and
radius adjustment. These speeds are now read from the camera
configuration file. Furthermore, independent acceleration and
deceleration values are also read in for yaw, pitch, roll, and radius.
In order to implement the deceleration, it was
necessary to check each frame to see if the swingman keys were NOT being
pressed. If this is the case, and the camera is currently moving,
the deceleration factor is subtracted from the current speed.
A small feature was added to slightly roll the camera when
the relative yaw is adjusted. This seemed like a fun thing to do,
however it can cause slight nausea. This function takes an angle to
roll to. It doesn't immediately roll to the angle, but instead
gradually rolls until it gets to the target angle.
FreeMove
FreeMove is an extension
of FreeLook. Any camera can now be moved around by the player.
The control is similar to the controls of a FPS game. The user can
map keys to control forward, backward, strafe left, strafe right, up, and
down. The movement of the camera is relative to the orientation of
the camera. If the forward key is pressed, the camera will move
forward along the orientation vector of the camera. The movement of
the camera is an offset from where the camera would regularly be. If
the current camera is an attached camera, the camera will continue to
follow the vehicle as usual, with the FreeMove offset added to this.
If the camera is a tracking camera following a spline, the camera will
continue to follow this curve and the FreeMove offset will be added to
this.
In addition, FreeLook's key mappings were
reworked. All orientation changes are able to be mapped to the keyboard.
Control - Toggle Free Look
Control - Zero Free Look
Control - Camera Slow Move
Control - Camera Move Forward
Control -
Camera Move Backward
Control - Camera Move
Left
Control - Camera Move Right
Control - Camera Move Up
Control -
Camera Move Down
Control - Camera Tilt Up
Control - Camera Tilt Down
Control - Camera Tilt Left
Control - Camera Tilt
Right
Control - Camera Turn Left
Control - Camera Turn Right
Control
- Camera Zoom In
Control - Camera Zoom Out
Vehicle Specific Cameras
This
feature allows for separate camera configuration files for each
vehicle. To specify a camera file to use, a line can be added to the
vehicle's vehicle_name.veh file in the form:
Cameras=camera_file.cam. If this line is not present, the file
\GameData\Vehicles\default.cam is used. The camera data is then
stored in the vehicles VehData data structure. When the user
switches vehicles, these cameras are copied into the AttachedCameraManager
and used thereafter. There is one problem with this implementation
that was just discovered. If the user creates an onboard camera in
the camera editor, the new camera is saved in a camera configuration file
in the directory of the player file. These cameras are then loaded
when the game is started; however these cameras are then overwritten by
the vehicle's specific cameras.
TrackIR Device
The TrackIR device
was originally setup to use the CC_Look controls. This was changed
to use the CC_Camera controls instead.
The
TrackIR must be mapped to some analog controls. Failure to do so
will result in the TrackIR acting like a boolean. When you move your
head to the left for example, it will act like the CC_LookLeft button and
move all the way over or nothing at all. Ensuring that the device is
mapped to analog controls will result in precise movements on screen
relative to your head position.
Some other things
added were checks for all sorts of problems involving the TrackIR and its
software or lack thereof. Also the device will now center upon
enabling of the hardware plugins.
Mirrors
The mirrors are now able to
be adjusted by holding the left shift button and pressing the AdjustSeat*
controls. New variables in the player file will result in the
player's mirror position preference being saved each time. The
mirror eyepoint utilizes these variables in its equation when trying to
figure out what is to be displayed on the mirror.
The mirrors and seat will also play a sound when adjusting them.
This is made possible by changing the CC_AdjustSeat* controls from
KEYREP_REPEAT to KEYREP_HOLD. This will allow the sounds to play
continuously instead of starting over each time the key repeats
itself. The seat movement was then slowed down to take in account
this change. It moves approximately the same as it use to. The
sounds will stop when you have reached the maximum/minimum position that
the mirror/seat can move in. A few lines must be added to each
vehicle's *.sfx file in order to play these new sounds.
Currently, the game renders the rearview mirror and that image is
split in half and each half is placed on the appropriate side
mirror. Adjusting the rearview mirror will result in the side
mirrors being adjusted as well. The only solution to this would be
to render three different views (one for each mirror). The benefit
of this does not outweigh the cost of the possible loss in FPS.