DynamicCam 2.0 beta is out!
Download here: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/dynamiccam/download/3661581
After almost one year, I have finally reached a state were it is possible to give you a first look at DynamicCam 2.0! If you want to check it out, your feedback is greatly appreciated.
But warning: Due to some fundamental changes "under the hood" your settings profiles must be modernized. Part of this Beta is to check if this modernization works flawlessly. Hence, you should make a backup copy of the file:
\World of Warcraft\_retail_\WTF\Account\<YourAccountName>\SavedVariables\DynamicCam.lua
If anything goes worng, you could then restore your settings from this backup. Furthermore, you could send us your file (on curseforge or wowinterface), so we could figure out what went wrong.
And of course:
About 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
New expansion, new expansion preorder hearthstone: Timewalker's Hearthstone [item 193588]. Here's the spell code for Core.lua:
As ever, thanks for all you do!
In reply to soulcookie:
Thanks a lot! :-)
Hi!
I love using the addon, but I've got two questions/problems:
1) When I set a situation's "set view" to a number, after exiting the situation, the camera stops automatically following me from behind. This is quite annoying, and it even happens when I check the "restore" option at my view settings. Is there a way to fix this, or at least set somewhere to have my camera follow from behind when moving?
2) Can I somehow disable the NPC interaction function in instances or combat? There's one particular case in NW when I need to talk to my steward (to activate the goliaths), and I wouldn't like to have the cam set to NPC mode there. I can also imagine other cases in the future, so it would be nice if it only worked out of instances.
Thanks for the answer!
In reply to sixfreed:
Hi, and thanks for your feedback.
Regarding 1): This has been reported by people for some time. But no one could help me reliably reproduce this. Have you found a way (other than /console cvar_default) to get the camera following back to work once it got disabled?
Regarding 2): I see that a toggle option for that would be handy. But until I find time to make such an adjustment, you can customize the "condition" script of your NPC interaction situation by adding the following code right at the top:
if IsInInstance() then return false
This will prevent the NPC interaction situation from being triggered whenever you are in an instance.
In reply to LudiusMaximus:
Hi! Thanks for the reply!
The script works for 2), thanks for that!
As of the 1), I think I found a solution (kind of).
/console cvar_default actually does not help my situation. I found on a forum that deleting the lines
SET cameraDistanceA "39.000000"
SET cameraPitchA "44.097324"
SET cameraYawA "0.000000"
from the config-cache.wtf file in the WTF/Account/[accountname] folder helps, and it does help indeed, but every time I do an NPC interaction it happens again.
So I noticed if I disable the "Restore" setting in the "View Settings", after exiting the NPC interaction, the camera works as intended. A small annoyance is that it no longer goes back to the same camera angle (only the distance) as before, but I can live with that. All my other situation settings are disabled. I don't know if this helps reproduce the situation.
In reply to sixfreed:
All right! Thank you so much for this input. This was the missing piece of the puzzle. I just did some experimentation and found out the following:
Camera auto-follow only works while you are in a non-customized view. See https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/API_SaveView.
Whenever you have used SaveView(1) to store the current camera position to view 1, auto-follow will no longer work while you are in view 1 (entered with SetView(1)). The only way to get back to auto-follow is ResetView(1) (the in-game equivalent of deleting cameraDistanceA, cameraPitchA, cameraYawA from config-cache.wtf).
So, if we want to make DynamicCam view changes a thing with camera auto-follow enabled, we would have to restore the view after the situation is over to one of the default views.
View 1: Zoom 0, Pitch 0
View 2: Zoom 5.5, Pitch 10
View 3: Zoom 5.5, Pitch 20
View 4: Zoom 13.8, Pitch 30
View 5: Zoom 13.8, Pitch 10
I will try my best to make time and release a new version with this feature as soon as possible.
UPDATE: For the time being, you could disable "Restore View" for the NPC-interaction situation and put the following into its Exit Script:
ResetView(3) SetView(3)
(Instead of 3 use the default view that suits you best. But obviously not the same view you use for your stored NPC-interaction view.)
In reply to LudiusMaximus:
The new beta version 2.0.0b4 now has a method to use custom views and the camera auto follow.
Hey there!
I love your addon! I was wondering if you might be able to give us a couple bullet points on what Dynamic Cam 2 can do differently! I was a little worried about trying to for myself until it is ready for release, as I don't want to accidentally break something in my UI! Thanks!
In reply to Ruggie74:
Hi, and thanks for your kind words! The new DC2 version most prominently has a new UI with help texts that should make it much more accessible to find your way around customizing your situations.
Other than that, some new features (off the to of my head) are:
Just give it a try. If you copy your \World of Warcraft\_retail_\WTF\Account\<YourAccountName>\SavedVariables\DynamicCam.lua file to a backup location, you can always go back to DC1. The only thing the beta of DC2 does not yet have is full support of Situation Import/Export and Presets. The rest is pretty matured by now. There are at least about 200 users already using the Beta and I have heard no complaints in a long time. :-)
@LudiusMaximus
i have issue with addon conflict with another addon has the same commands ,
The addon that has the same commands is : Details!Skada Covenants
default Profile of the addone has chat on
/dc chat [on | off]
when i ever enter a dungeon i keep getting : you are not in a party , and the covanant chat not working .
can we do something about this ?
In reply to Gaaver:
Hm, to fix this from DynamicCam's side, I would have to make the chat commands user-customizable. This is not so easily done and not on the top of my priority list.
But you will have to do it every time the respective addon gets updated.
someone who has well configured everything including mytics can copy their profile. it would help. Thank you
Blizz released /console camerafov 120 yesturday, but is now going revert it, can you please come out with some way to reenable 120 fov, it transforms the game in such a great way.
In reply to rpkxnoscope57:
I will definitely incorporate camerafov into the DynamicCam settings. But I need some time to experiment how this interacts with the other settings. But what is this you are saying about Blizzard reverting it? I have not heard about that reverting yet.
In reply to LudiusMaximus:
All right, I saw the post that they are capping camerafov at 90 again. https://twitter.com/WarcraftDevs/status/1539693070614024194
So it should still be possible to adjust this setting between 50 and 90, which DynamicCam shall support with some upcoming release.
How should I configure it to be able to play Miticas Plus well? As I have it, it's chaos.
In reply to fernandonovales:
So you are having problems in Mythic Plus instances? What exactly and how could I reproduced this?
In reply to LudiusMaximus:
it is possible that I have it misconfigured. What would be the best configuration? if you have a profile that I can copy I thank you
In reply to fernandonovales:
Try some of the included presets?
En respuesta a LudiusMaximus:
he probado pero no me apaño jaja. será problema mio