mestiez
commented
2 years ago wouldnt this be too complicated for a game like this? is there a more intuitive / elegant way to go about this?
Open UrbanNight opened 2 years ago
mestiez
commented
2 years ago wouldnt this be too complicated for a game like this? is there a more intuitive / elegant way to go about this?
Feature description A Spawnable item, the recording camera is a live camera that is able to project its footage to a display with a matching TV channel. The TV channels work like the radio channels, but only for TVs. In order to go to them, you would need to right click a TV and select "Add Camera Channel" and then type in the channel your camera is on - or something like that.
Unlike cameras in real life, this instead records and projects its footage with a "Projection Rectangle". This uses a fixed angle rectangle to record its footage instead of using the traditional cone shape due to 2D restrictions. Here's an illustration.
You can expand and dilate the "Projection Rectangle" to "zoom in and out" by using red and blue activation signals. The green one just turns the camera on or off. The player can right click the camera to set how far the rectangle is from the camera.
Feature purpose I think it would be pretty cool for decoration, surveillance systems (drones anyone?), mini-games, and for people who just wants to see more than one part of their screen. I think it could help add more uses to the TV.
Additional context It might be nice to be able to switch though different channels on the TV with red and blue signals also.