Rear view mirror

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Rear view mirror

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Ok, I've figured out how to ask for a rear view mirror. ;)

The custom camera stuff is all there already, I think. So to make a rear view mirror, AA needs to do a couple of simple things.

Allow assignment of multiple viewports to the same player
Allow custom sizing of viewports
Allow the HUD to be toggled per viewport

Custom sizing can be something simple like proportional sizing, ie lower numbers mean smaller sizes. So if I set viewport one at size 2 and viewport two at size 1, viewport two would be half the size of viewport one.

Assignment of multiple viewports might be trickier, based on reading the config options. Config options have you assigning a viewport to a player rather than a player to a viewport. If you can assign a player to a viewport, then you'd just assign the same player to two viewports (or more, or whatever).

Then I could use camera options in the viewports to set one up that points backwards, and I'm done. ;)
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Lol, i just made it so when i pressed O, i could see behind me...
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=*SpectruM*= wrote:Lol, i just made it so when i pressed O, i could see behind me...
I've already got camera keybindings. My right hand had steering and my left has the camera. That's not the same as a rear-view mirror, though.
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Post by =*SpectruM*= »

Ah well, using 4 keys, i have 2 use O as my rear View.
:lol:

here's my key layout:

W I O
S J
I and W are right, while S and J are left!!!

It used to be real hard, but i've got the handle of it now :wink:
Its meeee!!!
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Heh. I've got it like this:

, and . are left
/ and right alt are right

I keep my index finger on . and my ****-you finger on / and my thumb on right alt. I shift to double left, but I don't shift to double right.

On the left hand I have left alt is glance back, z and x are glance left and right, respectively. They're close to s for say, and I use my left hand to tab the scorecard.
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