make camera reparent to object?

Scripting Issues
1

Hey, is it possible to make my camera reparent to my character so that it automatically follows?

2

Yeah.

base.camera.reparentTo(character)

You can then setPos on the camera to give it an offset, then you can use base.camera.lookAt(character) to make it point at the character.

3

thanks a lot

4

I’ve done this before, and I like to set the relative position of the camera a bit behind and above the player, looking out. For example (using ralph):

base.camera.reparentTo(self.ralph)
base.camera.setPos(0, 30, 10)
base.camera.lookAt(self.ralph)
base.camera.setP(base.camera.getP() + 15)

I would play around with it, until you find something you like. Also, remember to call base.disableMouse().