Switch camera with C++

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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I have some objects following splines in the scene, and one of the objects has a camera on it that is automatically assigned as the main camera, that fine, even though I haven’t quite understand how this happened, and where to modify this behaviour?

But sometimes I want to have a birds eye view of the whole scene, while I’m test running the game in the viewport, just to see the whole scene a lot better. I figured I can just place a second camera object in the scene to give me the view I want. But how do I toggle between the cameras with a key, and where should I place that code, since the two cameras are separate objects, which class should receive the code, the GameMode class?

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Duplicate of : Please Help : How do i switch the main/target camera in c++ - Programming & Scripting - Unreal Engine Forums

Please google before you ask!

P.S. If you want to get a bird’s view for development reasons, try pausing the game and ejecting from the possessed pawn. Then you can move freely.

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I did google, but that results never gave be enough help.

However your tip for ejecting the pawn was much more useful, that saves me some work. Thanks!

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That duplicate is not properly answered. As the last post question says, I have the same problem. Probably because the game controller tries to use the camera but upon deactivation it tries to manipulate a null pointer.