🛠️ Rework subtree camera perspective

[rwarnking]

Follow up issue: Rework this subtree.

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07.05.2024 Discussion

Explanation

Currently the camera perspective tags contain a first person as well as an iso perspective tag. We think that these tags do not describe similar concepts or can not be compared. Therefore a refinement or a rework of these tags is necessary.

Proposition 1 (discarded)

camera degree of freedom

• free detached → free movement
• character attached (following)
• camera on rails (with rotation)
• camera on rails (without rotation) (cinematic, no control, game control)
• static camera (location attached, scene changes)
• cinematic camera
• fully controlled
• semi controlled
• no control

Proposition 2

Split camera related information into the following categories: **camera type, camera movement & rotation, cutscenes**

We used the definition of the USK for cutscenes to separate it from quicktime events.

• camera type
  • first person
  • third person
  • over the shoulder
  • top down (Dota)
  • side-on/side-scroller
  • other
  • no actors involved
  • abstract data/UI
  • straight-on/frontal/ui camera (Hexcells) [no player character]
• camera movement/rotation
  • free
  • player character attached
  • finite options
  • scripted (cinematic, rails)
  • fixed/static
• cutscenes/cinematics/(Zwischensequenz)
  • many
  • few
  • ingame
  • pre rendered
  • quicktime events (input prompt)(under noobsi of cutscenes?)

Wikipedia: Side Scroller

Examples

game	camera type	camera movement	cutscenes
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes	first person	static
L.A. Noire	over the shoulder	player character attached	ingame, quicktime events
FEZ	side on	finite options
The Walking Dead	side on	player character attached	ingame, quicktime events
Her Story	straight on	static
Dota 2	top down	free	few, ingame
Pokemon Snap	first person	scripted
The Swapper	side on	player character attached	few, ingame
Risen 2: Dark Waters	over the shoulder	player character attached	few, ingame, quicktime events
Pferd & Pony: Mein Pferdehof

Related Changes

• (12.05, Phase 4) Rename camera perspective to camera type
• (12.05, Phase 4) Add new tags camera movement rotation, cutscenes cinematics to spatial navigation
• (12.05, Phase 4) Move freedetached camera from camera type to camera movement rotation
• (12.05, Phase 4) Append iso perspective from camera type to misc
• (12.05, Phase 4) Add new tags over the shoulder, side-on,top down to third person
• (12.05, Phase 4) Add new tag camt: straight on to camera type
• (12.05, Phase 4) Rename third person to camt: third person
• (12.05, Phase 4) Rename first person to camt: first person
• (12.05, Phase 4) Add new tags cut: few, cut: ingame, cut: many, cut: pre rendered, cut: quicktime events to cutscenes cinematics
• (12.05, Phase 4) Add new tags cam: finite options, cam: gixed static, cam: player character attached, cam: scripted to camera movement rotation

[rwarnking]

18.10.2024 Discussion

We decided to exclude this tree from the next phase using our software tool since it is not suffiently developed but also is most likely not relevant for externalization since it is a mostly mechanical feature.

[rwarnking]

Based on the discussion of the 18.10.2024 this issue was closed. These Follow up issues were created:

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