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Hey, my friends!

I tried to make a camera animation that is triggered by a button click.
The animation works, but there is one small problem:

The camera doesn't rotate. It just moves from the start to the end point. But I want to rotate it too, so that it looks upwards.

I have used two kinds to create the camera IPO: "LocRot" and "LocRotScale". But always with the same result. It doesn't rotate.
Anyone knows why it happens?
I did not define the poa. So the camera is not attached to the avatar. It should move free.

Did you use the simple type camera? That is the type which should be used for animations.

Scaling is not supported in PyPRP btw.

The camera still doesn't work as I did expect.
I write a PM to you with the code...

Having never animated a camera myself I am not sure if I can answer this. The general principle is that first you switch to the new camera using a cameramsg and then you start the animation with an animcmdmsg.

And I did notice an additional command in the PyPRP source files which perhaps the wiki forgot to mention? The "- setanimated" command.

See if it helps to add that:

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<any object>:
    logic:
        actions:
          - type: responder
            name: <responder name>
            responder:
                states:
                  - cmds:
                      - type: cameramsg
                        params:
                            cmds:
                              - regionpushcamera
                              - respondertrigger
                              - setanimated
                            newcam: <camera name>
                        waiton: -1
                    nextstate: 0
                    waittocmd: 0


As I recall, from my own animated camera, I had to include the cutpos and cutpoa flags and/or (not entirely sure) zero pan limits, or I'd get just what you describe.

In my case, I didn't really want that sharp cut to the camera, but accepted it. I suppose a work-around would be to have duplicates of the camera at its end points and switch between stationary and moving ones at the start and end of the animation.