How To Switch Cameras Ue4 Bp

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In this How-to tutorial yous will expand upon the logic y'all created in the Using a Static Camera guide to create additional Overlap Volumes and Camera Actors in your level, then you lot will navigate your player character through each book to demonstrate the transition between Camera views.

Changing the Overlap Volume Logic

In order to accommodate for the new camera transition functionality, y'all volition demand to brand some adjustments to the previous Overlap Volume logic.

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In the Content Browser, double click your BP_BlendTriggerVolume to open it's Class Defaults.

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In the My Blueprint tab, navigate to the Variables category, and click the + sign to create a new variable. Name this variable CameraToFind, make its type CameraActor, then click Compile.
Click the Middle icon side by side to your CameraToFind variable to make its visibility public; doing so provides the adequacy to edit this variable for each instance of the Design.
Navigate to the Event Graph, and from the On Overlap Begin event logic, delete the Get Role player Of Class node.

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From the My Design tab, click and drag a copy of your CameraToFind variable onto the Upshot Graph.

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Connect its output pin into the New View Target input pin on the Set View Target with Blend node. Then, elevate off from the If Branch node True execution pin and connect to the Set View Target with Blend node.

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Compile and Save.

Finished Blueprint

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In the Content Browser, navigate to your C++ classes folder, and open your BlendTriggerVolume.h class defaults.

In the course defaults, delete the existing TSubClassOfAActor declaration, and supercede it with

                protected:  UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite) ACameraActor* CameraToFind;

Next, navigate to the BlendTriggerVolume.cpp file, and in the constructor ABlendTriggerVolume::ABlendTriggerVolume, declare the following:

                // Sets default values ABlendTriggerVolume::ABlendTriggerVolume() {      // Set up this actor to call Tick() every frame.  You can plow this off to ameliorate functioning if you lot don't demand it.     PrimaryActorTick.bCanEverTick = true;      OverlapVolume = CreateDefaultSubobject<UBoxComponent>(TEXT("CameraProximityVolume"));     OverlapVolume->SetupAttachment(RootComponent);      CameraToFind = CreateDefaultSubobject<ACameraActor>(TEXT("CameraToFind")); }

Inside the ABlendTriggerVolume::NotifyActorBeginOverlap method, remove the following lines of code:

                //Assortment to contain institute Photographic camera Actors TArray<AActor*> FoundActors;   //Utility function to populate array with all Camera Actors in the level  UGameplayStatics::GetAllActorsOfClass(GetWorld(), CameraToFind, FoundActors);  //Sets Player Controller view to the starting time CameraActor found   PlayerCharacterController->SetViewTargetWithBlend(FoundActors[0], CameraBlendTime, EViewTargetBlendFunction::VTBlend_Linear);

Replace the removed code with:

                //Sets Role player Controller view to the CameraActorToFind variable.             PlayerCharacterController->SetViewTargetWithBlend(CameraToFind, CameraBlendTime, EViewTargetBlendFunction::VTBlend_Linear);         }     } }

In the in a higher place declaration, we replaced our logic so that when our player character overlaps the volume, it will transition to the Camera Role player variable instantiated in the course'southward constructor.

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BlendTriggerVolume.h

            //Copyright 1998-2021 Ballsy Games, Inc. All Rights Reserved.  pragma once  #include "CoreMinimal.h" #include "GameFramework/Player.h" #include "BlendTriggerVolume.generated.h"  UCLASS() class STATICCAMERAS_API ABlendTriggerVolume : public AActor {     GENERATED_BODY()  public:         // Sets default values for this actor's properties     ABlendTriggerVolume();  protected:     // Called when the game starts or when spawned     virtual void BeginPlay() override;      UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite)     class UBoxComponent* OverlapVolume;      UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite)     ACameraActor* CameraToFind;      UPROPERTY(EditDefaultsOnly, meta =(ClampMin = 0.0f))     float CameraBlendTime;      virtual void NotifyActorBeginOverlap(AActor* OtherActor);      virtual void NotifyActorEndOverlap(AActor* OtherActor);  public:         // Chosen every frame     virtual void Tick(float DeltaTime) override;  };

BlendTriggerVolume.cpp

            //Copyright 1998-2021 Epic Games, Inc. All Rights Reserved.  #include "BlendTriggerVolume.h" #include "Components/BoxComponent.h" #include "StaticCamerasCharacter.h" #include "Camera/CameraActor.h" #include "Runtime/Engine/Classes/Kismet/GameplayStatics.h"  // Sets default values ABlendTriggerVolume::ABlendTriggerVolume() {      // Set this actor to call Tick() every frame.  Y'all can plow this off to improve performance if you don't need it.     PrimaryActorTick.bCanEverTick = true;      OverlapVolume = CreateDefaultSubobject<UBoxComponent>(TEXT("CameraProximityVolume"));     OverlapVolume->SetupAttachment(RootComponent);      CameraToFind = CreateDefaultSubobject<ACameraActor>(TEXT("CameraToFind")); }  // Chosen when the game starts or when spawned void ABlendTriggerVolume::BeginPlay() {     Super::BeginPlay(); }  void ABlendTriggerVolume::NotifyActorBeginOverlap(AActor* OtherActor) {     if (AStaticCamerasCharacter* PlayerCharacterCheck = Cast<AStaticCamerasCharacter>(OtherActor))     {         if (APlayerController* PlayerCharacterController = Cast<APlayerController>(PlayerCharacterCheck->GetController()))         {             PlayerCharacterController->SetViewTargetWithBlend(CameraToFind, CameraBlendTime, EViewTargetBlendFunction::VTBlend_Linear);         }     } }  void ABlendTriggerVolume::NotifyActorEndOverlap(AActor* OtherActor) {     if (AStaticCamerasCharacter* PlayerCharacterCheck = Cast<AStaticCamerasCharacter>(OtherActor))     {         if (APlayerController* PlayerCharacterController = Bandage<APlayerController>(PlayerCharacterCheck->GetController()))         {             PlayerCharacterController->SetViewTargetWithBlend(PlayerCharacterController->GetPawn(), CameraBlendTime, EViewTargetBlendFunction::VTBlend_Linear);         }     } }  // Called every frame void ABlendTriggerVolume::Tick(float DeltaTime) {     Super::Tick(DeltaTime);  }

Level Setup

In lodge to demonstrate the newly implemented logic, you will demand to gear up an additional room, Photographic camera, and Overlap Book to your Level.

Using the map created previously from the Using a Static Camera how-to guide, create an additional room.

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In the World Outliner, select your BP_BlendTriggerVolume Histrion, then in the Details console, navigate to the Defaults category. Open the dropdown carte du jour adjacent to the Camera To Find variable.

Select your BP_ExampleCameraActor.
From the Content Browser, drag an instance of your BP_CameraActor (BP_CameraActor2) into the world, then adjust its transform coordinates to your desired viewpoint within your newly created room.

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From the Content Browser, drag another instance of your BP_BlendTriggerVolume Role player into the earth (BP_BlendTriggerVolume2), and so navigate to the Details panel and change its Box Extent Ten, Y and Z values to fit the size of your newly added room.

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In the Details panel, navigate to the Defaults category and open up the dropdown menu next to the Photographic camera To Find variable.

Select your BP_ExampleCameraActor2.
Navigate back to the toolbar, and click the Play(PIE) button.

End Result

When the game starts, the player controls their graphic symbol's movement using WASD. Upon overlapping the multiple BP_BlendTriggerVolumes in the level, the photographic camera view will transition to the BP_CameraActors that you have created and placed in your level.