JeanKouss/godot-third-person-camera

A Third Person Camera for Godot Engine

Godot Third Person Camera

A Third Person Camera for Godot4.

📝 Table of Contents

• Godot Third Person Camera
  • 📝 Table of Contents
  • 🏁 About
  • 🏁 Documentation
    • How to use ?
    • Third Person Camera Properties
      • Distance From Pivot
      • Pivot Offset
      • Dive angle
      • Tilt upper limit
      • Tilt lower limit
      • Tilt sensitiveness
      • Horizontal rotation sensitiveness
      • Current
      • Mouse Follow
      • Mouse X sensitiveness
      • Mouse Y sensitiveness
      • Camera tilt
      • Camera horizontal rotation
    • Camera3D Properties

🏁 About

This is a ready-to-use third person camera for your 3D games. It is also highly configurable and its configurability allows you to use it in multiple ways :

• Dynamic Follow
• Fixed Perspective
• Shoulder View
• Over-The-Shoulder View

🏁 Documentation

How to use ?

1. Add the scene ThirdPersonCamera.tscn located at addons\third-person-camera\third_person_camera as child for you character node.
2. Twerk the properties to fit you need.

Third Person Camera Public Methods

get_camera()

Return the Camera3D

get_front_direction()

Return the direction forward the camera view

get_back_direction()

Return the direction backward the camera view

Third Person Camera Properties

Distance From Pivot

• Property name : distance_from_pivot
• Type : float
• Exported : Yes

Pivot Offset

• Property name : pivot_offset
• Type : Vector2
• Exported : Yes

Dive angle

• Property : initial_dive_angle_deg
• Type : float
• Exported : Yes
• Range : -90.0 .. 90.0

Tilt upper limit

• Property : tilt_upper_limit_deg
• Type : float
• Exported : Yes
• Range : -90.0 .. 90.0

Tilt lower limit

• Property : tilt_lower_limit_deg
• Type : float
• Exported : Yes
• Range : -90.0 .. 90.0

Tilt sensitiveness

• Property : tilt_sensitiveness
• Type : float
• Exported : Yes
• Range : 1.0 .. 100.0

Horizontal rotation sensitiveness

• Property : horizontal_rotation_sensitiveness
• Type : float
• Exported : Yes
• Range : 10.0 .. 700.0

Current

• Property : current
• Type : bool
• Exported : Yes

Mouse Follow

• Property : mouse_follow
• Type : bool
• Exported : Yes

Mouse X sensitiveness

• Property : mouse_x_sensitiveness
• Type : float
• Exported : Yes
• Range : 0.0 .. 5.0

Mouse Y sensitiveness

• Property : mouse_x_sensitiveness
• Type : float
• Exported : Yes
• Range : 0.0 .. 2.0

Camera tilt

• Property : camera_tilt_deg
• Type : float
• Exported : No
• Range : tilt_lower_limit_deg .. tilt_upper_limit_deg

Camera horizontal rotation

• Property : camera_horizontal_rotation_deg
• Type : float
• Exported : No

Camera3D Properties

All Godot Camera3D Properties are available. You can access to camera node by get_camera() method. Also, it exported variables are available in the editor.