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how would someone go about making a camera move automatically... like in some techdemo's the camera automatically flys around a level? also much like the background for Unreal, flying around the castle?

i have done some experimenting with this, but with no luck, because i have no idea where to start from...

can anyone offer some assistance?

Create a list of 3d coordinates, have the camera start at the first coordinate. Get the distance to the next way point. Divide these three distances by a fixed value (or better by the difference in timer values from one loop to the next). Add the fractional distances to the current camera value. When the camera gets close to that waypoint, calculate distances to the next way point in the list. Repeat until you get to the last waypoint. Then, either stop at this destination or go back to the beginning of the list and loop forever.

Of course, you can get much fancier than this, camera rotation, velocity changes, curved paths, 3D sound, headlights, etc. But, start with this basic logic and then go for the chrome.
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Don't ask me for code. The idea is for you to work out the details and thus truly learn how to work the system.

one thing that i didnt try... if i created a simple box in a modeller program (3ds max is what i have)... and animated this box to follow a certain path with rotation... and exported it as a .x file with animation...

i know when exporting the 000 coords for the object is actually the 000 coords for the scene in 3ds max... so technically the objects position wouldnt change... but what about doing something like this with limbs or something?

just trying to find an easier way to do this... if there even an easier way to do this?