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Scraggle
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Posted: 26th Oct 2003 19:11
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Hello.

I'm writing a multi-player split-screen game that has each player (upto 4) using a different camera to view the game world.

What I want is to hide certain objects from some of the players but not all, so HIDE OBJECT is no good for me because that would hide the objects from every camera.

Is there anyway to show an object only in one (or two, or three) cameras and hide it in the rest?

Thank you.
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IanM
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Posted: 26th Oct 2003 19:24
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There's no way to do that directly that I can think of.

Here's a suggestion - recreate the environment once for each player and keep them out of each others camera range. So you could have everything for player 1 basic on y-coords of 0 to 10000, player 2 at 10000 to 20000, and objects for player 1 of 1 to 1000, plater 2 of 1001 to 2000 etc

It's a bit of a management nightmare I'm afraid
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Scraggle
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Posted: 26th Oct 2003 23:13
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That sounds like a hell of a lot of work for what is essentially a very small part of the game.

Thanks for your help but I think I will go for the lower quality option and try using sprites for the semi-hidden objects instead.

Not an ideal solution but if it looks OK then it will certainly be easier to impliment.

Thanks
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