Duke Nukem 3D --- 3rd-person view?

[mje...@rit.edu]

In article <4es161$5...@news.isc.rit.edu>, mje...@rit.edu says...
>
>Anyone know how to get the third-person view in Duke3D? If you watch the
>self-running demo, it often shifts to a certain "camera" (not one of the
>security cameras) in the room and we see Duke running around shooting things.
>Has anyone found a way to switch to that? (Not that I think it would be
>incredibly useful, but it could be fun to try).
>
> Marshall
>

Let me clarify something --- I'm not talking about the F7 view (from
behind Duke, where he's kinda translucent). I mean where you see Duke from
one point in the room as he runs and ducks and shoots and all. Kind
of like a TV camera view or something.

Marshall

[mje...@rit.edu]

[Randy Hester]

In article <4es161$5...@news.isc.rit.edu>, mje...@rit.edu says...

->
->Anyone know how to get the third-person view in Duke3D? If you watch -the
->self-running demo, it often shifts to a certain "camera" (not one of -the
->security cameras) in the room and we see Duke running around shooting
-things.
->Has anyone found a way to switch to that? (Not that I think it would -be
->incredibly useful, but it could be fun to try).
->
-> Marshall
>
RTFM, try F7.

[Sean Crooks]

In article <4f0vpj$8...@tilde.csc.ti.com>,

Randy, did you even read his post ?? He is refering to the "fly-by" view
of Duke, not the view from behind the character.

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Sean Crooks
se...@caspian.coc.powell-river.bc.ca

[Jeremy Riley]

I understand that the third person cameras in the demos are as a
result of recording demos as in Doom .LMP files. Howvere Dukes are
called .DMO files and can only be recorded from the full release
version not the shareware.

Perhaps you can actually set them up! That would be cool, although I
suspect it will be predetermined.

Cheers

Jeremy

[Philip Epstein]

se...@coc.powell-river.bc.ca (Sean Crooks) wrote:

>>->Anyone know how to get the third-person view in Duke3D? If you watch -the
>>->self-running demo, it often shifts to a certain "camera" (not one of -the
>>->security cameras) in the room and we see Duke running around shooting
>>-things.
>>->Has anyone found a way to switch to that? (Not that I think it would -be
>>->incredibly useful, but it could be fun to try).

Yeah, I was trying to figure out how to do it. If you use the command
line parameter to record a demo, those same cameras appear. They're
floating in mid-air, scattered throughout the level. But I can't
manage to get my demo saved! I run through it, quit, but then there's
no .DMO file in my duke directory. Anyone know the proper usage to
record a demo?

Phil Epstein

[Michael Noll]

p...@po.cwru.edu (Philip Epstein) wrote:
>se...@coc.powell-river.bc.ca (Sean Crooks) wrote:
>
>>>->Anyone know how to get the third-person view in Duke3D? If you watch -the

Try 'F7' to change the view mode -- you get kind of a 'chase plane' type view...
not too useful, but pretty cool to check out now and again.