[TEC] Link between clickable spot and camera?

Darkbluesky · 04-23-10, 04:31 AM

Hello

I was exploring .cam files in order to learn to mod some ideas I had.

I found, for example this: the highlighted proprierty defines the action to trigger when the parentID model (in this case the conning tower hatch 3D model, whose definition is inside the NSS_Uboat7_CR.dat file) is clicked.

The action is, afaik, to trigger the "Conning tower camera", according to what is shown in S3D (see screenshot), if I am not wrong. At this point I lose the link between this and the definition of the characteristics of the conning tower camera, which is defined in Cameras.dat.

I mean, how does the engine know that the command described here "Conning tower camera" relates to the CT camera in Cameras.dat (in Cameras.dat it is described as "_Dummy_Cam_ConningTower")? Is there still another file in between?

The node "_Dummy_Cam_ConningTower" in Cameras.dat does not have any ParentID, and there is no reference to the command "Conning tower camera" in commandes_en.cfg neither... Could some modder please help me?

Thank you very much for any advice!

Note: I am checking all of that with FM_New_Interiors files. Trying to learn from FM work, although I think the question is the same with stock files.

04-23-10, 04:31 AM	#1
Darkbluesky Sparky Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 155 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 0	[TEC] Link between clickable spot and camera? Hello I was exploring .cam files in order to learn to mod some ideas I had. I found, for example this: the highlighted proprierty defines the action to trigger when the parentID model (in this case the conning tower hatch 3D model, whose definition is inside the NSS_Uboat7_CR.dat file) is clicked. The action is, afaik, to trigger the "Conning tower camera", according to what is shown in S3D (see screenshot), if I am not wrong. At this point I lose the link between this and the definition of the characteristics of the conning tower camera, which is defined in Cameras.dat. I mean, how does the engine know that the command described here "Conning tower camera" relates to the CT camera in Cameras.dat (in Cameras.dat it is described as "_Dummy_Cam_ConningTower")? Is there still another file in between? The node "_Dummy_Cam_ConningTower" in Cameras.dat does not have any ParentID, and there is no reference to the command "Conning tower camera" in commandes_en.cfg neither... Could some modder please help me? Thank you very much for any advice! Note: I am checking all of that with FM_New_Interiors files. Trying to learn from FM work, although I think the question is the same with stock files. Last edited by Darkbluesky; 04-23-10 at 07:09 AM.