[SOLVED]: How to render filght simulator cockpit panels?

[dtrip]

Hello,
suppose I want to make a flight simulator (which currently I don’t but just for the sake of the question).

So I want the cockpit to have monitor screens that show other renderings, like the radar, the map or a target with a crosshair on it, etc.

A straightforward solution would be to “render another camera onto a plane”, or “render another scene onto a plane”. Is something like this possible ?

Thanks in advance,
Dimitris

[Daedalus_MDW]

yes, dynamic textures are what you are looking for. for lights, you might want to just toggle the visibility of an object with halo (radial gradient) texture.

[AeroLynx]

Hi,

There is another thread regarding camera simulation including ready-to-use minimal examples with multiple cameras:

Helping Camera Simulation In Blender Game Engine?

Thanks for this clean, minimal example I was curious and tried to expand it to multiple cameras, here is the result with a modified test scene: multi_cam_viewer.blend (714.7 KB) In includes the three camera targets with varying focal length: [TestCase] And a camera, facing away from the targets [TestCase2] Some notes: The script is the same for all viewing planes The viewing camera is given as game property on the textured planes I wanted different focal lengths for the …

In the latest post I left there, I asked for possible post-pro effects on these different views, but no one has replied yet. I guess we are aiming in the same direction…

If you think of e.g. a terrain radar as an instrument, you would need to render the same scene, but with a different material. I am not sure if this is possible, maybe the veterans around know.

[dtrip]

Thanks guys, very useful.!

[BluePrintRandom]

easy, in nodes just have a camera node and distance,

2 cameras at 2 different distances can see 2 different materials.

that is what this used.