im tryin to make a rearview mirror, ive set up a camera so it faces backwards on the car but now how do i display what it sees on a panel?

can you help?

look up 'views' in the manual, exactly what you need. You can use the bmap property to render it to a bmap/panel.

ok cheers

VIEW* viewDepth =
{ bmap = "#256x256x14"; // create a 256x256 floating point render target
flags = VISIBLE | SHADOW | NOSHADOW;
material = mtlDepth;
}

VIEW* remote_camera = { layer = 1; }

remote_camera.bmap = bmap_for_entity(monitorsprite,0); // render view on monitorsprite
set(remote_camera,VISIBLE); // render this view

is this the peice of script you mean under view?
if so could you explain it to me better. because from what i can tell this render to a sptite.

ok try this snippet...


First we define a blank bitmap that we can render into. Next thing we do is create a view. You can control this the same way as 'camera' placing it where you want with x,y,z and pan,roll,tilt etc. What it points to is rendered into the bmap.

Finally we create a panel to show our bitmap. We does this like we always do...

It's actually quite simple, allow you can only set the view's x/y/z/angle stuff in functions, and not when you are defining it.

Hope this helps...

yea that helped alot, works great thanks very much.

how do i set the view on the car?
as the manual isan telling me much.

please i still neep help with this

view_name.x = VALUE;
view_name.y = VALUE;
view_name.z = VALUE;

just update the .x/y/z values of your view in some sort of loop.