Scriptable chasecam

[Marisa the Magician]

This is one thing that would be pretty handy for many mods. I'm sure some people would prefer to, for example, have an over the shoulder view or similar, or a camera that orbits the player independently from the player angle until they actually move/attack. I've found ways to sort of do this through ZScript but there's a problem: They involve spawning an actual camera actor and viewing through it. This causes screen effects that rely on the camera being set on player, such as screen flashes, to not work. If P_AimCamera was made into an actor virtual, all of this could be done in a much cleaner way.

[Matt]

Would it be more flexible (or at least user-friendlily intuitive) to have some kind of flag where the camera actor will also experience whatever effects the player.mo does?

[Major Cooke]

I couldn't agree more with this. Please!