Camera: How hard would this be to impliment?

[FuzzySpider]

We've all by now had a go at the debug camera. Looked around our ships. And thought "Sweet!" It's a pain to use though, right?

How about instead of manually moving it there are number of pre-positioned points? Let's say offset the camera position from each hardpoint by 50 or 60 meters or so, and have the camera randomly flip between each position every 5-8 seconds. Perhaps even have one camera take up position around 800 meters in front of the ship, slightly offset, and keep it static in position but focussed on the ship for a flyby.

Think of all the youtube vids you'd get!

 

[Thasarion]

Especially of you could fly the ship while doing this, and then get awesome footage of you smashing into the station wall or a Type-9 on it's way in or out because you can't see where you're going.

 

[Therinfluffs]

I like this, you could even keep up with realism and make it so damaging a ships sensors will black-out the extra cameras. For a proper third person view one could assume a small drone is mass-locked or tethered to the ship in some means wirelessly sending data to the ship computer to provide such a view as well.

 

[Alex Brentnall]

I personally would just like to be able to zoom out that little bit further on the bigger ships. Possibly also a movement increase, moving the external camera at the moment feels like im trying to lift a sack of sand.