[Solved]How to switch between first person camera to third person camera and vice-vesra?

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Hi all, is there a way to switch between third player and first player character controller in game at runtime with logic or trait ??

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Yeah, you can do it, the way to do it would be to move camera from first person to third person or vice-versa.
Create 2 empties and place 1 empty near first person view and second empty near third person view, then using logicnodes/haxe script change camera position from one empty to other empty using some inputs.

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If you use the Armory updater to get the latest version of the SDK, you could also use the change camera node to change between the first and third person cameras:

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Code:

// ...

var camera:CameraObject;

function init() {
// ...
camera = iron.Scene.active.camera;
// ...
}

function update() {
// ...
var keyboard = iron.system.Input.getKeyboard();

// default camera position
if (keyboard.started("1")) {
camera.transform.loc.set(
camera.transform.loc.x,
-5.0,
camera.transform.loc.z,
camera.transform.loc.w);
}

// other camera position
if (keyboard.started("2")) {
camera.transform.loc.set(
camera.transform.loc.x,
-8.0,
camera.transform.loc.z,
camera.transform.loc.w);
}

// ...
}

// ...
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Thanks a lot guys ! this will help me to continue my project

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Yeah, necro, but I can’t find anything on this:

Is it possible to interpolate smoothly between cameras and
not jumping instantly from one to another?

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Yes, check the bundled trait follow camera, the logic of this maybe can be repurposed for what you need

if not, check the tweening example https://github.com/armory3d/armory_examples/tree/master/tween, I think it’s a little bit outdated to the current changes but more or less gives you the idea.

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