northgard-camera-move

A plugin RTS camera move system made in Godot Engine 3.4 imitating to the Northgard game.

+ Recent version V.0.9.5 with new features and fixes applied.
- Plug-in development written in C#.

Intrduction:

JRPG-camera-move-v.0.9 it's a tool designed for to RTS Games and RPGs. Let you make a real time strategy 3D game.

What it does:

Move Camera with Mouse in Godot 3D, fading in and in-out smoothing, customizable parameters, keyboard camera control, player tracking camera, zoom in-out. Displacement across map x, y, z and diagonal with Map Range Clamped system. Set up the "Kinematic Character Move" interactive.

The Y key is used to lock or free-view camera.

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Free-View Cam: First gif image

Lock-View Cam: Second gif image

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Keys A, W, D, S is used to move character and tracking with camera smoothing.

The mouse wheel scrolling + or - is used to Zoom in-out Camera. Even you can scrollable and zoom.

Operative systems compatibility:

MacOS

Linux

Windows

Requeriments:

Godot_v3.4.2-stable_mono_win64 (Mono Version).

Don't matter if you code in GDScript, it enabled for both C# or GDScript.

GLES3 (GPU Driver Compatibility OpenGL 3.3).

Get Started:

1. Copy or clone repository inside of ➤ C:\Users\YourName\Documents\YourGodotProject
2. Rename the folder "northgard-camera-move-plugin-for-godot" to "addons".

Start Project:

1. Run Godot Engine 3.4 (C# Version required to run the plugin).
2. Create a new node type Spatial and rename for 'SampleScene'.
3. Attach a new script type C# (give it another name that is not SampleScene).You will be able to remove it later and choice GDScript.
4. Now clicked in Build or Alt + B.
5. To enable the freshly installed plugin, open Project > Project Settings at the top of the editor then go the Plugins tab.
6. Active to enable the plugin > rts_camera_move
7. Press the "Add Child Node" button at the top left of the Scene dock to create a node. This button adds the chosen node as a child of the currently selected one or, in an empty scene, as the root.
8. Select the node Spatial > RTSCameraMove3D. You can type it's name to filter down the list.
9. Click the RTSCameraMove3D node and check the "Editor Description" to know how to set up the Input Maps.
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11. Set up the Input Map to enable Mouse Zoom and Character Move (PASS 9). Project > Project Settings > Input Map.
12. Finally the set-up has been completed, save the project and press Build.
13. Run the Game.

Contributing

Contributions to the development and enahancement of JRPG/RTS data is welcome. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.

FAQ:

If you have any questions or doubts comment in the description into below.

1. How to set up the parameters and settings?
   Into Godot editor double-click FileSystem > addons > rts_camera_move > "SampleScene.tscn". Now in the new window can going to SampleScene > TrackingCamera > Camera and here variables it can be changed.
2. What is size map clamped it?
   Higher values than the default value means a symmetric larger map. It should keep the same dimensions on both sides to avoid clamping critical errors.
3. How to does put my 3D character model and animation?
   It's super easy, select on folder addons/rts_camera_move/SampleScene.tscn (double click) in the inspector, and replace ahri_base node for your own.
   Configure to Scale X 0.1, Y 0.1, Z 0.1, Translation X 0.0, Y 0.1, Z 0.0 and Rotation Degrees -180 or choice your custom set-up. That's it.

Do you want more features?, check it out repositories weekly.

Licensed Under MIT

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Enjoy it!