Camera Delay?

For a delay, the classic (cheap) approach is just to keep a list (array) of all the positions a camera to go to be at a final position.

So you have CameraBegin - The beginning camera position, and CameraEnd.

You can Linearly Interpolate the values of CameraBegin and CameraEnd to get the in between frames.
So:
(1.0f - PercentComplete) * CameraBegin + CameraEnd * PercentComplete;

Now you could just use a step value, say 0.2f, that goes into 1.0f (the max percent complete value) 5 times. This gives you 5 entrys into your array.

Then you slowely go through the array at say 10 frames a second:
CameraCurrentFrame += 10 * fTimeElapsed;

This would make that array be done in half a second, so you''d want it to be much bigger, but I think you get the idea.


So thats one of the techniques you could use. There''s at least a few dozen more with a few different kinds of camera interpolation to help out (LERP''s kinda suck). If you need help actually orienting the camera, just ask. Shouldn''t be tough though.