Planned A proper 3rd person view (aka Chasecam)

[aceface]

Yeah I hope it does @jan_spaceman

 

[Gamel]

can't agree more on this!!!!

 

[TwoNiner]

This is an awesome idea!!!

 

[Matt_Bradock]

2 words: DO WANT!

 

[aceface]

This is an awesome idea!!!

I KNOW RAYT??

 

[Creeper__God]

Little trick for those of you wanting 3rd person cam for larger ships. Build a small decoritive fighter where ever you want a camera and put a camera on it. Keep it under about 5x5x5 blocks and it will not intrude on the main ships asthetics but will apear as a small fighter flying escort for your ship.
For those of you wanting this on smaller ships, build a small tail wing and put a camera in it.

 

[aceface]

but it's not the real thing... D:

 

[Archer6621]

This would make third person mode a lot more fun to use than how it is right now, +1

 

[aceface]

exactly, this is one of those features we need before steam release - when i started playing starmade i thought that the game already had such a feature but unfortunately it didn't

 

[aceface]

2 words: DO WANT!

2 words: ME WANT

 

[Hatter]

I swear this feature used to be in the game, I remember having a better view on my ship a long long time ago before I took a break from the game.

 

[HerrColonel]

I don't know why this feature haven't been looked at already. This is pretty client-sided imo

 

[PizzaPress]

Sadly, Aceface's workaround could kill your turn rate for a small ship(where turn rate actually changes, on big ones it's always 1.0, though big ships are not the norm anymore. Mass based turning when?).

Having this would be really nice, though if it's a big bother you can at least return the mass-based turning and put in a tutorial or something on making a floating cockpit(to allow the flood of steam users to have third-person). :p

Schema could make it a fake cockpit system-entity that you can place on that block area so long as there's no other block there, if that's possible.

 

[aceface]

Sadly, Aceface's workaround could kill your turn rate for a small ship(where turn rate actually changes, on big ones it's always 1.0, though big ships are not the norm anymore. Mass based turning when?).

exactly, however i just think 3rd person should just be a thing - no complications, just a key tap or scroll out and its there.

also i don't like the work around either mainly because it doesn't feel as natural as this for example:

 

[aceface]

can't wait til this is a thing

 

[111shaneb111]

The want is strong with this one.

 

[aceface]

since we have now 40 people who want this can it now be thing?

 

[Megacrafter127]

since we have now 40 people who want this can it now be thing?

No! >:I

(jk)

 

[aceface]

make that 41 lol

 

[Alias72]

why not allow cameras to rotate their view within the cone of their angle. when zoomed out you could rotate the camera to offset your ship relative to the camera focus, allowing you to see where your going, but not allowing you to rotate entirely to the side such that side cameras are still usefull