Will there be a possibility to show the back view of a ship permanent on a second monitor/display? Imagine a Thrustmaster MFD Cougar setup with an 8″ display behind to show permanently what's going on behind your ship!asked by Moutz
TL;DRChris Roberts says a permanent rear-view display isn't in the short-term roadmap because CryEngine handles multiple cameras poorly and a second view doubles rendering time, though it may be revisited as the engine is refactored.
Really nice thought. The issue with being able to do that is one, A: CryEngine is not very good at having proper multi camera views. So in terms of having a camera here and a camera over here, it doesn't really support that. Also, by the way, just to let you know on a rendering time, you just doubled your rendering time basically because you render one view and you render a second view.I think short term we're not gonna have sort of secondary camera views. Longer term it's always something we kind of like although there is some fundamental structure inside CryEngine that isn't very predisposed to it that may go away to some extent as we continue to refactor the engine, but right now that isn't in the short term road map.The other possibility and opportunity that we've talked about is potentially, which is not exactly the same, but we talked about viewer clients that you can basically log into the server and see a camera or control a camera so think of it like a traffic camera or something and so you can have a different view.Potentially, maybe something like that could help out a little bit there, but at the moment we're not planning on having that functionality right now. I do agree it would be cool, it's more about the core fundamental structure of the engine which doesn't support multiple cameras. So there you go.