# Make Camera Follow Remote Controlled Vehicle

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-camera-follow-remote-controlled-vehicle/9028>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [March 2, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-camera-follow-remote-controlled-vehicle/9028 "2015-03-02T23:05:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Blaze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Blaze](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Blaze)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-camera-follow-remote-controlled-vehicle/9028/1 "2015-03-02T23:05:16Z")

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Sure the range isn’t that great, but it would sure work better in towns.

Maybe require a camera installed?

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**Author:** ![KA101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/278dde/32.png) [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-camera-follow-remote-controlled-vehicle/9028/2 "2015-03-02T23:23:51Z")

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Obvious idea, more difficult to implement, I’m afraid. (Otherwise we’d have had it follow the RC car too!)

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**Author:** ![Blaze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Blaze](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Blaze)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-camera-follow-remote-controlled-vehicle/9028/3 "2015-03-03T00:31:17Z")

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I figured it was something like that. Ah well.

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-camera-follow-remote-controlled-vehicle/9028/4 "2015-03-03T00:44:28Z")

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Slightly more specific, we can easily center the view on the rc car, but we can’t easily draw anything over 60 squares away from the player.  
Not saying it won’t happen, it’s just a lot of work.

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**Author:** ![Blaze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Blaze](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Blaze)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-camera-follow-remote-controlled-vehicle/9028/5 "2015-03-03T01:19:48Z")

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Well, considering the remote doesn’t have much range, I think just centering it would be fine.

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**Author:** ![StopSignal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/stopsignal/32/1923_2.png) [@StopSignal](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/StopSignal)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 1:36am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-camera-follow-remote-controlled-vehicle/9028/6 "2015-03-03T01:36:44Z")

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> [@Blaze](#):
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> Well, considering the remote doesn’t have much range, I think just centering it would be fine.

My thoughts exactly. Also, you are not supposed to know what the car sees, unless it’s got a camera of some kind?

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 4:43am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-camera-follow-remote-controlled-vehicle/9028/7 "2015-03-03T04:43:52Z")

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Yea, it’d just move the center of the screen around unless you had a camera and screen, if you did we could have it reveal FoV around corners for scouting.  
If that’s all you need it’s quite doable.

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**Author:** ![KA101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/278dde/32.png) [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-camera-follow-remote-controlled-vehicle/9028/8 "2015-03-03T23:28:30Z")

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[quote=“Kevin Granade, post:7, topic:9028”]Yea, it’d just move the center of the screen around unless you had a camera and screen, if you did we could have it reveal FoV around corners for scouting.  
If that’s all you need it’s quite doable.[/quote]

OK, good to know.