Scripts / Picture in Picture - 2 camera's possible?

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Saintyboy
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Posted: 16th Mar 2016 11:30
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Hi guys, anyone have any idea on how to incorporate 2 camera views into a game; ie something like a driving game and you have a rear view mirror with a different camera view in it; so basically a picture in a picture.
Racked my brains and cant see any way to use more than one camera at a time.

Any advice would be more than welcome.
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Posted: 16th Mar 2016 17:31
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We don't have any commands to control the main camera yet, we definitely won't be able to have two cameras any time soon.

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Posted: 17th Mar 2016 16:04
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if I cant do it with camera there must be a workaround - any genious's out there?
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Posted: 17th Mar 2016 16:16
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you could do it with sprites and their distance and angle relating to the player like the radar script if you really wanted to.
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Quote: "you could do it with sprites and their distance and angle relating to the player like the radar script if you really wanted to."


Sprites wouldn't give him a picture of what's behind him though would it?

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Posted: 17th Mar 2016 16:34
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and I would need a sprite image of every object in the game!
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Posted: 18th Mar 2016 09:38
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Quote: "Sprites wouldn't give him a picture of what's behind him though would it?"

Sure it would, you can create entire games completely out of sprites if you want
Quote: "and I would need a sprite image of every object in the game!"

Yep but you did say there should be a workaround and that's the only one that comes to mind
For something like a formula 1 racing game this would probably be an easy solution, a simple sprite to show a bit of road in the mirror and then some extra sprites to show the front of any cars following behind... If you restrict the view / size of the mirror.
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Posted: 18th Mar 2016 10:52
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This is the only other camera view I have found. see screenshot
There is a shader that gives you a top down view, (masked) camera view of the map, I never got around to see if I could manipulate it, as I need to learn the shader language.
I cannot remember which shader it was, ill have to dig around in a backup drive to find the fpe to tell.
It might be of some use oneday.

Note: the red arrow point to the same entity, in the screenshot.
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