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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Camera projection on a face of a mesh?

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Sph!nx
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Posted: 10th Apr 2013 19:06 Edited at: 10th Apr 2013 19:07
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Hey all,

Is it possible? Like Half-life 2 and most other modern games?

Would be cool to use for TV's, security cameras or something more interactive like computer (touch) screens and such. I'd like to experiment with this but I'm a bit clueless on the matter. Any suggestions or alternative ideas?


Kenneth

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Also you will need "sync mask" and "fastsync" commands. Like this:

make camera 1
set camera to image 1,100

do
do something
sync mask 2^1: fastsync
do something
sync mask 2^0: sync
loop

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Posted: 10th Apr 2013 19:55 Edited at: 10th Apr 2013 20:08
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Wow, thanks a lot, guys! Pretty simple actually...

Just for clarification: A sync mask is something like a false sync in order to refresh the camera but not draw on the screen, like a normal camera, correct?

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Okay, another question. What would be a good solution for interactive computer screens (in games like doom3. etc)? I've got several ideas on making it interactive, using up 3D space for let's say, a 2D interface printed would not be handy... I hope I make sense here... Any thoughts on that?

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Don't use sync mask, just use sync camera.

For interactive Doom3 style computer screens, I'd suggest Faziqium's (spelling) DBFlasher plugin. It's a lot like Scaleform, and allows you to play flash animations direct to a texture, including the ActionScript commands.

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Thanks Mobiius, I will surely take a look at it!

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Sync mask tolds the certain camera to render all currently included/unhided objects at current state. For example, you want to make all of your characters look red on the security monitor, so you color them red, mask and sync security camera, then color them back to normal and sync and render main camera 0.

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Or you could use the imagekit and color the image directly.

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Oh really? I thought camera image is locked. AFAIR I was unable to make memblock from that.

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I'm sure you can IK the camera image. You can shader the camera image, so why not IK?

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Found a solution for more interactive computer simulations.

To create simulated ui, like in doom 3 I found that Matrix utilities has draw to image commands. So, texture and object, use that texture with the draw image command and voila! Ran some tests and it works like a charm!

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well you learn something new every day!
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