Welcome to DynamicCam!
DynamicCam automates camera transitions (and settings) between the many different 'situations' that your character can find themselves in.
Using the new ActionCam settings reintroduced in 7.1, experience the game in a new way! E.g.:
- Zoom slow or fast depending on mouse wheel speed.
- Use custom situations to automatically zoom in/out when indoors/outdoors.
- Use custom situations to rotate the camera while teleporting.
- Use predefined view during NPC interaction.
- A camera over shoulder offset makes your character animations look more interesting.
- Focus the camera on enemies or NPCs during interaction.
An older video demonstrating the action cam during combat:
Check out this video by Kranken Latte for an explanation of the options:
Kraken Latte's UI - Part 1: Small Addons
You may also want to checkout these Bellular videos:
BellularGaming (May 18, 2016): The Action Camera: WoW Legion's Hidden Gem
BellularGaming (Jan 17, 2018): FEELS NEW! Ultimate Immersive World of Warcraft Setup for Patch 7.3.5
BellularGaming (Mar 13, 2018): World of Warcraft: ACTION RPG Edition - A New Way To Enjoy WoW in 2018
By any chance, is there a slash command to set the camera to automatically rotate? Either for XX seconds or until another command is entered? Or until the situation changes? Or whatever, lol?
In reply to xychellegame:
Good idea! So far this is not implemented, but it would not be a big thing. I put it on my todo list: https://github.com/Mpstark/DynamicCam/issues/44
I'm having some problems with transition times. In my experience, the transition time limit I've set doesn't really work that well. And often there is a very brupt, disturbing 'twitch' in the camera in changing situations, before the transition enters. It's highly disturbing for the immersive experience.
In reply to puzekatt1:
Hi, can you give some more specific instructions how to reproduce what you are experiencing? If you are using camera shoulder offset, there may always be camera jerks when mounting/dismounting, which is a problem on Blizzard's side.
When using divine steed form the paladin the camera gets fucked up. Shoulder offset goes to like 10 until the cast is over. Cant seem to find an option to change that. Wanted to use this addon so badly but thats just 2 much of a fuck up. Also no i dont know how to make custom conditions. If it is easy maybe you could add the situation in an update.
In reply to l_Denix_l:
Hey, I feel you! The thing with the player model dependent shoulder offset is a real pain. But this is just the way the shoulder offset is implemented in WoW. Don't ask me why, but for some reason the effective shoulder offset depends on your player model or mount. To compensate this, one would have to apply a certain factor to the effective shoulder offset at the exact same moment the player model changes. But this turns out to be rather complicated as well, because unless you apply the new offest exactly one frame *before* the in-game PLAYER_MODEL_CHANGED event, you will still see a slight camera jerk. Very annoying. I have spent weeks to try and fix this as good as possible. The current state of things is in the beta of my other addon CameraOverShoulder_Fix. It works pretty OK for mounts, druid forms, worgen, ghost wolf and vehicles. But I have not done it for divine steed, yet. Sorry.
At the moment I am using the little free time I have to finish a substantial overhaul of DynamicCam. Once this is done, I might get back to CameraOverShoulder_Fix.
Or what we should do is start a petition and ask Blizzard to finally make the shoulder offset player model independent. :-)
In reply to LudiusMaximus:
Hi, thanks for the reply. Its fine then i guess you are trying your best. I guess ill have to just disable it for my pala since wraith walking on my DK works just fine. Other than that one thing with the divine steed this is an awesome addon so thank you for creating this :)
Hello!
I seem to be having an issue with the shoulder offset option and the headbob option.
After I import a saved stream of data and load it, it seems as though the left and right sliders for both of these options stop working. My camera neither bobs nor will it even attempt to offset while dragging the slider left or right.
i have tried to disable/enable action cam, enable/disable DC, log and relog, update the addon, load a blank default profile and copy my settings to it, etc. but nothing works.
All of my other camera settings work perfectly - such as situational NPC interactions, etc.
The only time the shoulder offset and head bob work is if I revert to the default profiles that are basically blank slates.
do you have any suggestions? Thank you :)
In reply to dephraction_:
Hello! By "import a saved stream of data and load it" you mean that you have exported a profile or situation with DynamicCam and then imported it again? If you reproduce this reliabily, could you provide this export string here?
The only other thing that comes to my mind right now is: Regarding the head bop, it is known that changes to the cvar test_cameraHeadMovementDeadZone only come into effect after a /reload of the UI.
I noticed you have comments for adding more situations (like Soulshape and Metamorphosis from my google results) I was hoping to throw in a request for Ghost Wolf as well. Thank you! This addon is insanely immersive and wonderful, you're an absolute superhero for making it <3
In reply to Cthylla11111:
Thanks for your kind words! :-) If you like DynamicCam in its current state, you will be blown away by what I have comming for version 2.0! :-) It will be a UI overhaul with many improvements under the hood. Once this is out, I can start implementing new features. I added your request to my issue list in GitHub: https://github.com/Mpstark/DynamicCam/issues
In reply to LudiusMaximus:
Very exciting! I didn't want to make a whole new account after the link to make another request.. I was wondering if it might be in the realm of possibility to separate NPC interaction from Vendor interaction in the future as well? Either way, I'm quite happy with what this addon has to offer and knowing another version with more features is on it's way is very exciting! :D
This addon is good but there is no preset working good.
I'm just looking for a preset max zoom out always he can and camera get straight when walking.
Any idea?
In reply to rastablondy:
Sorry, but the auto-follow camera is not controlled by DynamicCam, if that is what you mean.
Started playing again and had to re install all my addon's, but as I was playing I felt like I was missing something. Then I remembered this addon, can't play without it, thanks for the hard work and can't wait for 2.0.
Amazing addon, if I could add one thing it would be a built in situation for the Night Fae ability Soulshape. The camera zooms in pretty far when you use it with the settings I have on; I tried making a custom situation to fix this but couldn't figure it out.
In reply to Zangon595:
Good idea. I will consider this. At the moment I am working on DynamicCam 2.0 (!!) with a completely new settings UI. :-D
In reply to LudiusMaximus:
Can't wait for 2.0 man, thanks for all your work on this. The game doesn't feel the same to me anymore without it!
Is there any way to disable DynamicCam only in pet battle. Just pet battle, I know theres a situation but I didnt see any of the pet battle section on it.
Hope youc an help.
In reply to Shafara:
I will put a Pet Battle situation in the next version. But know that most camera settings are ignored in Pet Battles anyway. Which DynamicCam settings would you like to disable during Pet Battles?