First Strike Forums — Cameras, in bf2142 engine are they real?

Re: Cameras, in bf2142 engine are they real?

2006-10-10T16:55:52Z

rosherau wrote:

They have had the option in every game since Duke Nukem 3D.

So you mean to say that every single game uses the exact same engines and the exact same programming?

Those "cameras" you speak of are just huds and effects. AFAIK, the BF engine has no cameras, one of the coders would know for sure though.

Re: Cameras, in bf2142 engine are they real?

2006-10-10T02:50:28Z

It is easly done. Make the usable entity in command HQ
Make the trigger it uses where you want the camera to be situated, link that with a model, make it destructable and there you go.
They have had the option in every game since Duke Nukem 3D.
They also need to be destructable like in the Jail when chewie and Han blow up all of the sensors and cams. Then report in that everythng is doing ok.

Oh one more thing and I did this in Half Life when making maps,
Make a Cam / Gun turret [destructable].
You press the use item and can move the cam/turret!!

This way you can have some sort of local perimiter defence for when breaking through a corridoor.
Easly destructable though.

Oh wait 1 mroe thing pleease.

In duke Nukem 3d you could go up to a terminala nd control a robot, LOOKED exactly the same as that small BLACK Mouse looking thing in the deathstar that Chewie growns at and gets scared and drives away.

Maybe we can have this sort of feature for placing laser mines, repairs or just recon?

Ok thx for letting me vent:P

p.s It seems strange but for a game that is now over 10 years old it seemed to have alot mroe features then most games released these days.

It even had jet packs.

Re: Cameras, in bf2142 engine are they real?

2006-10-09T23:29:22Z

Yea like an overview of the shield gen in hoth, Security cams in the tunnels of Echo Base. Security cams in all bases for that matter, Endor Bunker, Capitol ships.

Re: Cameras, in bf2142 engine are they real?

2006-10-09T23:27:42Z

Man I forgot to check this today! But it really would be cool, and if you think about could have some really cool uses.

Re: Cameras, in bf2142 engine are they real?

2006-10-09T23:03:43Z

ok but seriously? Would it be too hard to make a couple panels you could walk by and see a sercurity camera? I think it would be really neat.

Re: Cameras, in bf2142 engine are they real?

2006-10-09T20:05:16Z

Zulu wrote:

That's, just, disturbing.

Nah. Disturbing would be hiding a building or a pickup object in every level which is a variation on a phallus.

Re: Cameras, in bf2142 engine are they real?

2006-10-09T18:47:53Z

But shouldn't be ruled out

Re: Cameras, in bf2142 engine are they real?

2006-10-09T17:58:20Z

That's, just, disturbing.

Re: Cameras, in bf2142 engine are they real?

2006-10-09T17:34:55Z

Zulu wrote:

A nice easter egg would be a security camera in every level that showed an off-limits area with the First Strike Teams names on it. Maybe a personal slogan for each one such as:xEROhOUR "Master of the Chicken Hammer".

How about we take your idea one step further and have an easteregg serucity camera in every level that shows 3PO and another protocol droid making out in a closet.

Re: Cameras, in bf2142 engine are they real?

2006-10-09T15:58:40Z

A nice easter egg would be a security camera in every level that showed an off-limits area with the First Strike Teams names on it. Maybe a personal slogan for each one such as:xEROhOUR "Master of the Chicken Hammer".

Re: Cameras, in bf2142 engine are they real?

2006-10-09T15:44:06Z

TY2D2 wrote:

ok look... in the gunship of bf2142.. forget which team but its in one of the gunships, on the cockpit, if you mouse-look down you can see a REAL TIME screen... but its not just a see-through panel, the screen is actually a camera, I think. So esentially cameras can be made in the game on panels Right? Tell me if I am terribly wrong, but I think there is a camera on the gunship, and I was thinking you devs could incorporate it into security cams for hallways and such you know? Or anything else.

Pressing E to get in a security cam isnt that much bother.

Re: Cameras, in bf2142 engine are they real?

2006-10-09T11:32:33Z

how about the commander gwts to see all these things and decide for what people should do. Maybe it could be a button to get security cam footage and it would have a long recharge. It seems most plausible for the commander to see this as everyone else should be fighting anyway.

Cameras, in bf2142 engine are they real?

2006-10-09T03:45:24Z

ok look... in the gunship of bf2142.. forget which team but its in one of the gunships, on the cockpit, if you mouse-look down you can see a REAL TIME screen... but its not just a see-through panel, the screen is actually a camera, I think. So esentially cameras can be made in the game on panels Right? Tell me if I am terribly wrong, but I think there is a camera on the gunship, and I was thinking you devs could incorporate it into security cams for hallways and such you know? Or anything else.