Habitat Web Cam connectable to TV screen?

shirandhak

S
As said above:
Is the ingame habitat web cam connectable to the tv-screens? And if yes: how do you do this?

I know, you can place a web cam in your habitat and look at it (which is quite nice per se, but for someone who plays this game as "building game" it doesn't make that much sense, because I would want my web cam recording videos I can see not only on my RL PC monitor (which has little to no interest for me), but on my ingame TV screen for the sake of my zoo guests.)

But I didn't find anything about that in the ingame help.
 

hudsonbear

hudsonbear
Karen F said:
Annoying about the burrow cams is that every time you load your game the connection with the tv screen is broken. Hopefully frontier does something about this.
Click to expand...
I was coming on to say this, every time you reload a saved game you have to reconnect the TV to the camera, which is a little annoying.
 

Dylan Smith

D
hudsonbear said:
I was coming on to say this, every time you reload a saved game you have to reconnect the TV to the camera, which is a little annoying.
Click to expand...
Yeah what’s the deal with that, is it a glitch?
It’s boring what the badgers are doing down there anyway, I just don’t bother.
 

Spiderhawk

Spiderhawk
Every time I log into my europe zoo I have to reset the TVs to the burrow camera
Even if the badgers aren’t doing anything, it gives the guests a chance to see the animal and not complain
 

NZFanatic

NZFanatic
Cocolori said:
I imagine they are thinking about it now that they've proved it's possible with the burrows
Click to expand...
It was never impossible. When the feature was first announced this topic came up constantly and what they told us was that the performance drop from doing it was really bad and not worth the effort. So they could do it, they just didn't want to because they'd get hit with a bunch of topics about the game being too slow or crashing or whatever. Which is fair.

Maybe now they've managed to make it work somehow since we can do it with the burrows.
 

ElectricMonk

ElectricMonk
NZFanatic said:
It was never impossible. When the feature was first announced this topic came up constantly and what they told us was that the performance drop from doing it was really bad and not worth the effort. So they could do it, they just didn't want to because they'd get hit with a bunch of topics about the game being too slow or crashing or whatever. Which is fair.

Maybe now they've managed to make it work somehow since we can do it with the burrows.
Click to expand...
I think that the difference is that a camera showing a large area would mean rendering double the visuals if the screen were in view - if a large area is in view of the camera this could get pretty nasty. For a burrow this doesn’t matter too much because only a small area is visible?
 

Iben

Iben
ElectricMonk said:
I think that the difference is that a camera showing a large area would mean rendering double the visuals if the screen were in view - if a large area is in view of the camera this could get pretty nasty. For a burrow this doesn’t matter too much because only a small area is visible?
Click to expand...
This is from a technical standpoint indeed the most logical explanation.

The things the animal is doing in a burrow is minimal, so you don't have to render and take care of hundreds of things at once. Imagine making a section of billboards with habitat cams from all over the map. That would end with the game having to render all those areas you usually don't see; which would tank performance massively.

So it's as @NZFanatic said, it was never impossible. It's just extremely difficult to do it without having huge effects on your performance, and I think that's one of the reasons why Frontier doesn't do it for habitat cams.
 

Iben

Iben
Essentially yes. For the longest time mirrors in games were just a duplicate of the room you were in, now it's possible to render it as a new camera viewpoint.

It's all possible, but the hard part is always performance. If you have a small room or a burrow, there's not much to render so you can easily do that. But if you have a large zoo where you don't load or render large parts of the zoo because they're not visible for the user from the view they're in, then all of a sudden you could render the entire zoo in full detail simply by using billboards; which would just crash your game 😅
 

NZFanatic

NZFanatic
sockeyejo said:
Honestly, I'd be happy to be able to fake it - anything to stop the guests moaning.
Click to expand...
Technically you can fake it - you can take a video recording of the camera view and apply that to a screen or billboard to play on a loop. It's not live, or perfect, but it's close.
 

sockeyejo

sockeyejo
NZFanatic said:
Technically you can fake it - you can take a video recording of the camera view and apply that to a screen or billboard to play on a loop. It's not live, or perfect, but it's close.
Click to expand...
But that's a fake fake. I want the guests to see the live footage from the web cams - I don't need to see it!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom