Live view - Is it possible?

[tim260]

I've been thinking about it for some time but i dont know if its possible. Its about streaming a live view onto something im sure you all know the CCTV Camera System, i want to make a room for it with live streaming cams.

I think this image : http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/14/20/42/32 ... 28x471.jpg

Will say enough. Im just asking if its possible and how it would be if it's.

Greetings,

Tim260

[Anderl]

It might be possible but it will make server lag a lot doing the way I thought.

[tim260]

Any example how you would do it ? Or functions it could be done with

[Callum]

It may be possible using these functions.

[Tete omar]

I knew what you have been looking for , you want the camera goes to an position without the player , use setCameraMatrix.

[Castillo]

No, he wants multiple "live cameras" at different locations at the same time, it's explained on the photo he posted.

[Tete omar]

No, he wants multiple "live cameras" at different locations at the same time, it's explained on the photo he posted.

Is it possible to make that using gui functions ?

[myonlake]

No, he wants multiple "live cameras" at different locations at the same time, it's explained on the photo he posted.

Is it possible to make that using gui functions ?

As said before, DirectX functions would be the best.

[Anderl]

Exactly what I was thinking ( using DirectX functions ), but would not that lag?

[DiSaMe]

If you want to render the view from all points on the same client, then it will lag because the game can only render one view per frame. Something can be achieved without significant lag. For example, if you update the view of security camera every 30 frames rather than 1 frame, then your own view will only slow down every 30 frames with 1 security camera. With 2 security cameras, it would slow down every 15 frames. But lag isn't the biggest problem. Moving the camera long distances in short time intervals cause sync and LOD visibility problems.

There is another way which may look better, but uses more computing power: make a script which keeps taking the screen data of the client and sending it to the server. The server sends that data to all players who are near security monitors. Then players will see the screen of the client. This way uses bandwidth and requires to run a few clients on the server for screen data, but won't have glitches.

[myonlake]

Make it take a screenshot and load it every 2 seconds or so.