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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Paradox on April 24, 2006, 02:39:53 am

Title: Spectator cameras
Post by: Paradox on April 24, 2006, 02:39:53 am

I mentioned this in the TJW chat. A cool feature would be to have the spectator be a floating camera, similar to the ones that are in the first Cinema on Cairo Station on Halo 2. The camera would not get in the way of anything, seeing as people could pass right through it, it would just be a little avitar of a spectator, so you could tell when you were being looked at. Here is a picture of what it could be:
(http://x402.putfile.com/4/11220202776.jpg)
Just a floating body with 2 fans.

Title: Spectator cameras
Post by: [EVIL]Unknown on April 24, 2006, 03:04:42 am

hmm that would be neat but also the little thing would not only have to let us pass through it but it should be somewhat transparant so as it dont block our vision...

Title: Spectator cameras
Post by: Silverius on April 24, 2006, 07:37:10 am

Personally I don't see any use for this. To most people it would probably be much more annoying than useful.

Title: Spectator cameras
Post by: SLAVE|Mietz on April 24, 2006, 07:38:21 am

Quote from: "Silverius"

Personally I don't see any use for this. To most people it would probably be much more annoying than useful.

aggreed, not a essential upgrade to the game, just annoying:

"Oh, is it a dretch comming my way? no its the sepcator-camera!"^^

Title: Spectator cameras
Post by: Paradox on April 24, 2006, 03:42:38 pm

Quote from: "[EVIL

Unknown"]...somewhat transparant so as it dont block our vision...

That solves the problem of getting confused, and it would be grey and blue, whereas a dretch is yellow and green.

Title: Spectator cameras
Post by: Silverius on April 24, 2006, 04:21:45 pm

But not of it being visual clutter and distracting.

Title: Spectator cameras
Post by: Howitzer on April 24, 2006, 04:45:55 pm

If a spectator decides to become a dick and fly right before an attacked human..

Title: Spectator cameras
Post by: Silverius on April 24, 2006, 05:25:49 pm

Or tries to zoom in on the action.

Title: Spectator cameras
Post by: Paradox on April 24, 2006, 11:41:34 pm

A way this could be fixed is cameras are visible from, say 10 game feet, as they get closer to a character, they vanish, that would solve your problems.

Title: Spectator cameras
Post by: WolfWings ShadowFlight on April 25, 2006, 02:39:34 am

Quote from: "Paradox"

A way this could be fixed is cameras are visible from, say 10 game feet, as they get closer to a character, they vanish, that would solve your problems.

alphaGen portal
blendFunc GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA GL_SRC_ALPHA

Drop that on a shader, the object will fade out when it gets close to the camera.

Title: Spectator cameras
Post by: kozak6 on April 25, 2006, 05:08:17 am

I think we might be better off without it.

Title: Spectator cameras
Post by: KrazyKain on April 28, 2006, 08:46:53 am

it would make the game feel more like a tournament game, rather than an actual war between humans and aliens. this might be cool in halo and could be seen in Q3, UT. but not in trem

Title: Spectator cameras
Post by: stahlsau on April 28, 2006, 09:27:54 am

i don't see the need for such a camera thing. Anyway, what i really wonder about is what this bad-ass huge signature of paradox should be useful for. Couldn't you make it half the size? It's not THAT interesting afterall...and it makes us other users having to  scroll twice as much because of it's size.

Title: Spectator cameras
Post by: Stof on April 28, 2006, 10:50:51 am

Signatures should be limited to one line of text with no images at all :evil:

Title: Spectator cameras
Post by: Paradox on April 29, 2006, 02:39:15 am

Sorry, i will kick it back to the old short one, i see that it is too big.

Title: Spectator cameras
Post by: WolfWings ShadowFlight on April 29, 2006, 03:00:54 am

Quote from: "Stof"

Signatures should be limited to one line of text with no images at all :evil:

/SIGNED

Title: Spectator cameras
Post by: Arcozelo on May 01, 2006, 12:58:56 pm

I think the free cam causes too much trouble, but making dead people on a team able to spectate the view of their teammates (like in ET) would be a nice addition.