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Not Possible, eh?

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Well, I've never seen this done with RF, there's not a special entity for this and I don't think it could be donw with scripting, but I'm asking this, because there might be something I'm missing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJkgTISbdi0&NR=1
Whatch this vid...
see how in Half Life 2 things that are seen on the monitors are actually real (not videos). There are separate parts of the level where theese things are filmed.
But can RF make this? Can I monitor what a fixed camera entity is capturing somehow?

I'm 95% sure that it's not possible, but I just wanna be 100% sure.
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Re: Not Possible, eh?

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No.
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Ah, just as I suspected... So if I want something like this, I'll have to make a video of something and use a VideoTextureReplacer entity. One more video file makes the game HUGE, but at least it's something :D
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Re: Not Possible, eh?

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That is exactly how you would have to do it. Half Life 2 uses Render To Texture to accomplish that. Genesis does not support that yet.
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