Cinematic camera tool

[erksmit]

THIS PLUGIN HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE PLUGIN STORE BECAUSE IT DOES NOT WORK
this plugin is currently in a broken state and i am unable to resolve this anytime soon, ive only left this post up for archival reasons.

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this plugin adds a button to your sidebar, when pressed the camera will slowly move to random points in your city until you disable it.
This plugin is also available on the plugin store.

cinematicam.plugin

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known bugs:

• on activation the camera will sometimes be yeeted really far (still cant find out why lol)

update 1:

• fix camera speed tied to framerate
• fix camera rotation freaking out

update 2:

• camera can now move in all possible directions instead of 8
• camera no longer gets moved to the other side of the city on activation
• camera can no longer get stuck around endpoint
• button will now be hidden when hide ui is true

update 3:

• user can now set a speed multiplier in the settings

update 4:

• added manual mode where user can manually set waypoints to pan through
• added speed multiplier to plugin settings
• updated graphics a bit
• made code use vectors

update 5:

• support smooth zoom

update 6:

• optimize camera speed calculation
• add option to show tutorial dialog again
• fix several bugs related to manual mode
• improve destination generation in random mode

if you wanna see my bad code get it here

scripts.zip

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[CommanderABab]

It works fine as long as the map isn't rotated.

These images do noy do justice to what is going on

[erksmit]

the tool will run just fine on mobile but the camera speed is framerate dependend, since i made the plugin on pc the camera speed is adjusted for ~200 fps. Obviously phones have a way lower framerate and the camera will move ungodly slow there. Thankfully i think i found a fix to normalize for framerate so i should have a fix tomorrow

[CommanderABab]

https://youtu.be/KFqNf6ZefIA

Skip to 3:50 to see the problem.

[erksmit]

yeah it doesnt like it when you rotate for some reason, in the update its gonna lock your rotation cuz i dont think ill be able to fix it.
also its supposed to look like this: https://youtu.be/N-WM5pDmQH8 (ignore ja's party house)

[KINGTUT10101]

This is a really cool plug-in. I've always wondered if something like this was possible, but I just didn't have the time to test it myself.
If I were to make one suggestion, I wish the icon would disappear in Hide UI mode.

[CommanderABab]

I don't know if you need to lock the rotation while it is on. It is really useful to randomly place things like trees or decorations.

[erksmit]

the camera speed is now adjusted for your devices fps, which should give approximately the same camera speed on pc and mobile. Also rotating no longer breaks it as a side effect of some optimizations ive made

[KINGTUT10101]

the tool will run just fine on mobile but the camera speed is framerate dependend, since i made the plugin on pc the camera speed is adjusted for ~200 fps. Obviously phones have a way lower framerate and the camera will move ungodly slow there. Thankfully i think i found a fix to normalize for framerate so i should have a fix tomorrow

If you don't mind me asking, how did you fix this framerate issue?

[JustAnyone]

You'd add something like

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local lastMS = 0
local movementPerSecond = 42
local x = 0

function script:update()
  local ms = Runtime.getTime()
  local passedSeconds = (ms - lastMS) / 1000
  if passedSeconds <= 1 then
    x = x + movementPerSecond * passedSeconds
  end
  lastMS = ms
end

Lua editor

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[erksmit]

if you want to see the code ive put the file in the post

[KINGTUT10101]

How do you switch the camera mode after you've selected one? After I start the random one it won't open the menu again.

[erksmit]

You can change it in settings > plugins
and yeah those tutorial popups only show up once, maybe i should add a settings to show them again