@raedev

1 year ago

It's interesting to see that you show Trackmania clips, cause the game has 3 camera systems (well technically more, but 3 main ones) that each have pros and cons. There's the classic more arcade-y "far away and looking at the horizon" driving camera (Cam1), that shows you a wider area and lets you see what's coming ahead. There's one that's closer to the car and that follows its rotations more closely (Cam2), which is useful for specific maps and is comparable to something like the classic 3rd person shooter cameras. And there's the "first person" camera near the nose of the car (Cam3), that shows you very accurate direction and rotation, but depending on the maps you're gonna have trouble seeing where you're going. And the game gives you the ability to switch on the fly (hell, in certain maps i've seen players "reset" Cam1 so it re-aligns to the car instead of smoothly following it in specific parts, very reminiscent of all the camera manipulation from speedruns of 3D Mario games). However, it's interesting that if you look at all the top players in the game, even if Cam1 is the standard, a lot of players also play Cam2, and there are even some Cam3-only players such as Granady, currently one of the best players in the world. Also to note, the newest Trackmania title (the one released in 2020) added even more versions of these 3 cameras. For example the default "first person" Cam3 is from the pilot's perspective and it shows you the wheels and steering wheel of the car, but pressing the Cam3 button again will enter the classic "nose of the car" view. EDIT: also to note, older Trackmania titles had even wackier cameras, such as side cameras, a top down camera and such. Trackmania 2020 only has 3 default cameras, 4 if we count Cam7 (the freecam). On top of that, a common thing mappers do in the game is they make it so that when you enter a loop or certain wallrides, the camera automatically switches to Cam3 or Cam2 to better let you track its movement and what's important at the moment, then switch back to default camera (again, by default Cam1) after those parts of the map are passed. Though technically speaking, mappers have full freedom to make the camera track and move whatever way they want in their map, so some people have made top down "micromachine-like" maps that play like those classic games, or challenge maps with weird cameras, and such.

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