Mirror?

HyperKiller · Post by **HyperKiller** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:29 am

Is it possible to make a mirror, or a "camera" and a "TV"that displayes the camera's view?

wacko · Post by **wacko** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 12:17 pm

there were several threads regarding this topic.
some interesting approaches
no solution yet

imho, no, it is not possible

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 2:46 pm

The Quake engine has support fore something like it, but so far it seems that that support has not made it into the MOH version of the engine. Nibody has found a way yet, and exellent minds have looked into it.

Green Beret · Post by **Green Beret** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:32 pm

yea, i seen that in max payne.the security t.v. was watching different rooms,and u just clicked on it to change to diferent location.
pretty cool

HyperKiller · Post by **HyperKiller** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:06 pm

It is really strange that there is no support for such things. Even DukeNukem3D had a mirror.

Post by **Rookie One.pl** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 4:19 pm

There's even one in the Quake 3 training map... Someone check that out (I'm too lazy to install it

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hogleg · Post by **hogleg** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 8:08 pm

That would add a really cool mod for MP , go to a monitor and flip through all the rooms and find the campers, its only fair to get an edge on a camper, right?

Some scripting guru should try it. To be able to do it through scripting alone would be nice, implament it into a stock map

Hey Hyper, is that a Phallic Symbol

Mj · Post by Mj » Sat Jan 01, 2005 8:22 pm

hogleg wrote: Hey Hyper, is that a Phallic Symbol

I was wondering that too...

HyperKiller · Post by **HyperKiller** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 8:40 pm

I think not,
but it might help if i knew what Phallic means.
Cambridge Internacional Dictionary: phallic means symbolic of shaped like, or related with the penis. An enormous phallic tower was erected in the middle of the city

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Cheetohs · Post by **Cheetohs** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 9:19 pm

It suprises me that they don't have a 'mirror/camera' system, i wish there was one, cuz heck, there was even a camera system in CS and other older games.

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 10:46 pm

Cheetohs wrote:It suprises me that they don't have a 'mirror/camera' system, i wish there was one, cuz heck, there was even a camera system in CS and other older games.

Whell, there are portal_camera and portal_surface entities, they just don't work.

lizardkid · Post by **lizardkid** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 11:22 pm

also, how many full-color togglable cameras were there in WW2?

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 11:33 pm

lizardkid wrote:also, how many full-color togglable cameras were there in WW2?

Not sure, but I'm pretty sure the mirror was invented at that time

At0miC · Post by **At0miC** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 11:55 pm

Maybe this will help a bit..

Put the "portal" keyword in a texture shader.

"Specifies that this texture is the surface for a portal or mirror. In the game map, a portal entity must be placed directly in front of the texture (within 64 game units). All this does is set "sortportal", so it isn't needed if you specify that explicitly."

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:26 am

There is a portal texture already. Tried it, don't work.