Windowed Cameras


Keep an eye on different parts of the map in small windows (viewports), without obstructing the rest of the game.

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g Show what another player views

5 days ago

I know it's possible to link to entities like players.
But if they are working on the world map, via roboports and they are just standing in the same spot for 8 hours that's quite the boring stream to watch.
Is it possible to track their "entity's cursor" so i can actually see what they are up to?

Set up a camera to see what my mate's doing while we play together but damn he doesn't move, so it's pointless rofl

The idea behind this mod is nice tho. Immediately pulled me in cuz it's like second display for a gamer, inside the game :D and we all know how amazing that feels.

5 days ago
(updated 5 days ago)

Thanks for the suggestion, I agree that it will be a good feature to have.

This does need some significant effort to make, but it is feasible. I can see 3 ways of how it would work:

  1. Follow the other player's position in remote view and sync to their zoom level. Downside is because the windowed canera is usually much smaller than their entire screen, you can only see the center part of their view, which may not contain what they are interacting with.
  2. Same as above, but zoom out to cover their entire view area. Downside is everything will be very small.
  3. Follow their entity selection cursor. Downside is that the camera will have frequent sudden jumps. And I don't have a good idea of what to do when they aren't hovering over any entity, Factorio doesn't allow mods to just read their cursor coordinates, only the entity being hovered on.

What do you think?

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