Anyone know how to make security cameras?

[jkentmarsh]

I've been playin around with triggers and cameras and I can't seem to get a camera console for my mulitplayer CTF map to work...does anybody know how to make a security camera console?

[Cmdr. Antilles]

You can't make them just like SP, sorry.

 

The only way is to have a panel that constantly displays the camera view. To do that, make a portal_camera that targets a target_position. Then, make a portal_surface that targets that camera. The portal_surface entity must be near a brush that has a portal shader applied to it. Then, the view from the camera will be displayed on the surface of that brush.

 

Beware, it will drastically reduce FPS.

 

That's really the only way to get cameras in MP.

[Pseudopath]

I am trying this in SP but cant get it to work, the only thing I can think of that is causing a prob is the 64 worldpoints...

Is it absolute?

 

Thanks for your help.

 

- Pseudopath.