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Jul 21, 2003, 11:29pm

Given that people are asking for reflections, I would like to ask
(I remember reading someone else asking for them) for cameras
and displays.

A camera could be created on a given object like so:

create camera "name" [other parameters]

It would nominally point in the direction of one of the axes of
the object like a spotlight.

A display could be created like so:

create display source=cameraname [other parameters]

It would probably need to be a picture object, or some new tag.

The other parameters could be things like update rate, FOV for
a camera, tracking options to automatically pan the camera around
etc.

I think such a mechanism might actually work to make a pseudo
mirror, although it would not be a true mirror as discussed in
another thread.

If there were an option to make a camera automatically face away
from the viewer by as much as the viewer is positioned away from
the surface normal of the camera though, it should actualy work
perfectly.

create camera,display source=me pan=mirror_viewer

Something like that would create a mirror.

If this pair of commands could simulate mirrors, it could also
provide for live in world cameras too.

Jul 22, 2003, 3:40pm

i liek this idea not so much for the mirrors btu for the camera can you all
imagien havign gz moniterign cams so yo uan make securty offices liek i naw
and have 1 pk sit in a room with 20 moniters and watch the worlds hotspots.
i think itd be kool or maybe make soem fun camera ffects .or mayb even 30
cameras al laroudn me to make a 3d model of myself in aw on a screen by
naming them all the same thing on the source he he he
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Jul 23, 2003, 6:55pm

eh?



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Jul 24, 2003, 2:19pm

Would work if extra rendering of another area wasn't required (to cut down
on any lag), could be an option tho - heh... ~John - maybe aw could write a
visual sdk so that can take pics of locations


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