[article] Cameras

This is a discussion topic for the article "Cameras" by Dred_furst which can be found here

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You saw them, you want to make them...

I cant wait to get hl2!!! = /

I can't find point_camera in HL2DM!
Where is it?

Besides that excellent tut

Ok i finally got the camera to work in CSS - you need to add in the data files from HL2.

but my screens screwed up, the texture is aligned in the middle (the left part of the acreen is the right and vice versa- fitting the texture zooms it in on a tiny section of the screen and re-aligning it seems to be a very long game of trial and error - is their an easier way of ensureing that the screen lines up with the brush?

Ok, I have a question. I read this tutorial. I made a camera and a tv screen exactly like on this tutorial. I am mapping for hl2dm btw... Anyway, I just didnt use the g man. Now in my game I dont show up in the camera. Is there anyway to fix this? I've seen it done on the mpa building blocks _ final. I know for a fact it must be possible. Also, I have a very newbish quesiton. (plz dont kill me) How do I tie enitities such as a point_camera to a solid so that whenever I move the (lets say) solid camera (the actual physical one) the point eneitity moves flawlessly with it?

Try checking none of the entities have red target and name fields, also use the parent field to move things with other things,

Great, that's awesome. thanks a bunch. I would have never figured that out.

Your a star n1 man

Is it posible to get the cameras to take a screen shot and place it on the monitor while it scrolles through updating other cameras and monitors?

Very good tut easy to understand and all. But i got 1 question. When im having more Cameras the TV's still show only what is seen with the firt camera. I renamed the TV's (Wall brushes) and used the info_camera the right way but i still can only see whats shown on camera 1.
Anyone know why?

Cool Tut, I like it. But is ther no way to see yourself on the monitor? I was tryinfg to set up a mirror but couldn't rig up the right stuff.

Sweet tutorial but no1 has answered how 2 get it working in CSS???
1 guy sed he did it but didnt explain how he did it... any help wud be mad guys.
shibby

To get it to work in cs:s you gotta use a fgd other than the default. i found this tutorial http://csm2.net/forum/index.php/topic,53.0.html which with the fgd suggested in that thread you simply have to change the tv from being func_wall to func_monitor. other than that i believe the rest is the same. The direct link to the fgd is http://www.editlife.net/files/customfgd.php . Hope that helps.

Actually you can make a camera setup in hl2dm hammer and copy/paste it into your css map and it will work.

So...

The last post here was on 16th January 06... has anyone come up with any new details about working with camera's in HL2? Anything new or new tuts on how to accomplish amazing things with cameras?

The link doesn't work (anymore)