Change active camera by keyboard

[Evan.Buxton]

I want to have a level with 6 cameras. Tapping 1-6 on the numpad of the physical keyboard will switch the active camera. Is this better with Flow or Lua?

[cgicollector · Accepted solution]

Watch this video, it might work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHyoLSQ9jCk

[dave.tyner]

If you're new to programming, Flow will be the more logical option and this functionality in particular is easy to set up as you can see in Paul's excellent video. 🙂

[Evan.Buxton · Accepted solution]

I was able to set this up quite easily - thanks for the help.

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