Its Year 3025+ The Age Of Fusion-Reactor, Laser, Ppc, Etc. But No Simple Rear-Mirror?!
#1
Posted 09 November 2023 - 01:53 AM
I would like to see whats going on behind me.
Today, many Cars have a Rear-Cam.
It would be great if one of the Screens in the Mech-Cockpit would show me a live-rear-view!
#2
Posted 09 November 2023 - 02:44 AM
As far as I understand it, the game engine would have to render everything it does now twice, leading to a sizeable impact on the client side. It would also need a considerable amount of engineering time. Engineering time that frankly we don't have and that does not lead to a monetary pay-off, hence we won't get any.
#3
Posted 09 November 2023 - 04:13 AM
From the Year 2000...
And yes, grapic qualitiy is not UHD like todays Game. But Pentium 133Mhz CPU with 1MB S3-Trio Grapic-Card has been able to display it.
Similar, todays grapic is better than 23 years ago. But Hardware has grown further, too. So there's no point, to not realize rear mirrors in a actual game.
#4
Posted 09 November 2023 - 04:38 AM
Kai Allard-Liao and Deirdre Lear, on 09 November 2023 - 01:53 AM, said:
I would like to see whats going on behind me.
Today, many Cars have a Rear-Cam.
It would be great if one of the Screens in the Mech-Cockpit would show me a live-rear-view!
Today on the f-35 and maybe some other fighter jets we have the ability to have a virtual realty look through cockpit feature...
it's insane to think Battletech mechs don't have some way to see behind them. honestly some rear view camera should have been in the game since it's inception.
I think in lore it's said the neurohelmet view condesnses 360 view into 180 somehow.
Edited by KursedVixen, 09 November 2023 - 04:42 AM.
#5
Posted 09 November 2023 - 09:07 AM
#6
Posted 09 November 2023 - 09:55 AM
Kai Allard-Liao and Deirdre Lear, on 09 November 2023 - 01:53 AM, said:
I would like to see whats going on behind me.
Today, many Cars have a Rear-Cam.
It would be great if one of the Screens in the Mech-Cockpit would show me a live-rear-view!
No success.
And in the current situation, as Russ Bullock announced quite clearly two weeks ago, it is not going to happen.
#7
Posted 09 November 2023 - 07:00 PM
#8
Posted 11 November 2023 - 01:29 PM
#9
Posted 14 November 2023 - 12:26 PM
#10
Posted 14 November 2023 - 03:08 PM
ScrapIron Prime, on 09 November 2023 - 09:07 AM, said:
Edited by KursedVixen, 14 November 2023 - 03:09 PM.
#11
Posted 16 November 2023 - 03:32 AM
#12
Posted 16 November 2023 - 07:31 AM
Av4tar, on 16 November 2023 - 03:32 AM, said:
And to repeat...
And all the terrible things that would do to peoples' frame rates, forcing them to render twice the stuff. CryEngine for the win.
#13
Posted 16 November 2023 - 09:04 AM
ScrapIron Prime, on 16 November 2023 - 07:31 AM, said:
And all the terrible things that would do to peoples' frame rates, forcing them to render twice the stuff. CryEngine for the win.
Edited by KursedVixen, 16 November 2023 - 09:04 AM.
#14
Posted 19 November 2023 - 08:32 AM
KursedVixen, on 16 November 2023 - 09:04 AM, said:
Not monitors, rendering. If you use two monitors that display one view, the game doesn't do any more work. But if you have to render two views, your game graphics do twice the work. CryEngine is not that efficient, so this would result in more than twice the load on graphics, resulting in far, far more people having potato computers. (And its not even that efficient on the latest hardware.)
#15
Posted 21 November 2023 - 02:17 PM
martian, on 09 November 2023 - 09:55 AM, said:
No success.
And in the current situation, as Russ Bullock announced quite clearly two weeks ago, it is not going to happen.
Even though it won't happen, the only way I could see it being done would be an an alternate view, same as if you were spin your mech around, but not as a constant view. We already have Freelook, that could be tagged or similar behavior to give a smaller window view to the more sides/rear/down/up. But that would require an engineer, and time/funds to research if they could make it happen or not. Buy a mechpack?
Edited by Tarl Cabot, 21 November 2023 - 02:17 PM.
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