Mapping on hammer

Cameras and monitors

By deon91 6 years ago

Hey does any 1 know how 2 make cameras in hammer and make them viewable by like a TV or some thing? cause i cant figure it out and theres no tuts on it if u could show me 1 or tell me how 2 i would b able 2 finish my map so i can post it here 4 ppl 2 play and use on there servers or even make there own based on it i dont mind as long as u show me so i can have a look at yours

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    Posted 6 years ago

    Ok first off, Cigano, I don't see how you couldn't read that, maybe you're the one who has to go back to elementary school, considering you started your sentence with "1st" instead of "First".

    ANYWAY.

    deon91, here's my BASIC tutorial on making a camera.

    You will need 3 entities, a pointcamera (point entity), a funcmonitor (brush entity), and a little common sense.

    Firstly, you need to place a camera in your map, where YOU want it to be. Adjust the angles in a way so that the camera faces the area you want it to. Name this camera "cam1" or whatever is easy for you to remember. Don't play around with anything else unless you know what you're doing, and that's all for the camera.

    Secondly, you need to make a brush with a length, width, and height of 128x8x128 respectively. Now go ahead and make the entire block 'NODRAW', and then using the texture application tool select 1 side, the side you wish to view the camera from, and give it a monitor texture, search dev monitor in the texture filter. There's a load of textures for a monitor, we're going to use a TV monitor texture, so pay attention to the name. Just as a side note, these show up VERY WEIRD LOOKING IN THE EDITOR, do not worry, they will look normal in game.

    Finally make the brush you just made into a Func_monitor and edit its properties so that the 'camera name' is the name of the camera you made in step 1.

    That's it!

    If you have any questions or anything I should fix in this tutorial, PLEASE tell me.

    You're welcome.

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    Posted 6 years ago
    Posted by CIgano
    Posted by abominable37 Ok first off, Cigano, I don't see how you couldn't read that, maybe you're the one who has to go back to elementary school, considering you started your sentence with "1st" instead of "First".
    Yeah, that's why I'm level 3, because I say 1st instead of first.

    Good comeback! Claps, no but seriously that was harsh of you to say that to the kid in the first place. Clvl doesn't matter by the way, it's the actual content the player portrays in their comments, not some stupid number.

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    Posted 6 years ago

    Heh, where'd you go to school? OFFTOPIC

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    Posted 6 years ago

    Wow sorry, I thought you took at as a foreign language. You are speaking english right now, are you not?

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    Posted 6 years ago

    First hey man thanks for that it would have been a lot longer if you didn't help me with that, your tut filled me in but i'm still having problems like i was going to make an Admin room with monitors in there so you can watch the out side but what ever i do the monitors only ever view one camera from different angles so i got rid of all the cameras and started again but this time i only made two but both the monitors still viewed the same camera even though i set them to different ones so i have no idea whats going on there and need some more help. secondly CIGANO you asshole if your not going to answer the thread DON'T bother posting if have little patience for people like you i don't care how i write i just write so you can understand it if you cant I've written like this so you can before i was taking shortcuts and abbreviating words so it was quicker to read and write!!!

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    Posted 6 years ago

    Ok hold on tommorow I'm going to go and try this our it may not be your fault, it could be the engine, I will fill you in on details and whatnot, so we will see what's wrong with it then! Thanks for finally replying by the way, and you're welcome =).

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    Posted 6 years ago

    Yeah lol i have exceeded my download limit of 12GB so it goes heaps slower and i can't go on the internet much, any way ok ill wait for your reply if it wont work ill just make the one camera and monitor then upload it when i get full speed back.

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    Posted 6 years ago

    You can't have more than one camera showing a picture on the monitors at the same time. If you want to use multiple cameras, you need to have the monitors cycle between the cameras.

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    Posted 6 years ago

    Http://www.fpsbanana.com/tuts/1370

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    Posted 6 years ago

    Thanks but i kinda wanted to have one big monitor showing the whole map and one small one showing the teleport location but i guess ill just have to have one thanks any way

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