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'Dirty' Camera lens makes using camera very difficult
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Viewing a camera on a grid results in a screen / view that is 70% obscured by a dirty or low-res visual effect, meaning only the very centre of the image is clear.
This has been an issue since day 1- please make cameras actually usable by clearing up the image so that the whole screen is clear. Bonus points for placing a small cross hair in the centre, or adding a minimal HUD overlay. There are numerous camera-overlay mods on the workshop that exist purely because of how terrible the default camera is in terms of image quality- this should not be the case, and the developers should not be telling us that the terrible camera image quality is 'working as intended'- this is ridiculous.
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Bump- just in case you need some more convincing:
https://youtu.be/U2AiNGvhQiA?list=PLfMGCUepUcNzp9Uekm_0B2JZa9NNPMQ4A&t=308
There is no valid reason not to make Camera blocks have a clear image when viewing their PoV- unless Keen thinks it's funny to make the game harder to play for no good reason? I guess Marek is a sadist...
Bump- just in case you need some more convincing:
https://youtu.be/U2AiNGvhQiA?list=PLfMGCUepUcNzp9Uekm_0B2JZa9NNPMQ4A&t=308
There is no valid reason not to make Camera blocks have a clear image when viewing their PoV- unless Keen thinks it's funny to make the game harder to play for no good reason? I guess Marek is a sadist...
I agree. Please make this game less annoying.
I agree. Please make this game less annoying.
I agree also.
The cheapest CCTV cameras Amazon has to offer give better resolution than we see in-game. Most also have P/T as standard these days.
SE deserves better cameras.
There needs to be some kind of effect present to remind us that we're viewing a camera feed but the effect should be massively scaled down so we can better see what we're doing.
I agree also.
The cheapest CCTV cameras Amazon has to offer give better resolution than we see in-game. Most also have P/T as standard these days.
SE deserves better cameras.
There needs to be some kind of effect present to remind us that we're viewing a camera feed but the effect should be massively scaled down so we can better see what we're doing.
bumping this because nothing has been done about it and no official answer to the matter has been presented.
bumping this because nothing has been done about it and no official answer to the matter has been presented.
Right, 'couse you can build a Nuclear Reactor of 40cm³, but a camera with a good image is too much technology.
Right, 'couse you can build a Nuclear Reactor of 40cm³, but a camera with a good image is too much technology.
BUMP. Having to use mods so that we can see properly through a camera is getting ridiculous- especially after 6 years of complaining...
BUMP. Having to use mods so that we can see properly through a camera is getting ridiculous- especially after 6 years of complaining...
This is one of the unneccessary requests we have been dealng with for a log time and should warrant attention finally. Pleqase fix. I mean, sure, they may gety dirty over a long time but pretty sure, like a mirror, somone is going to clean it... If they aren't self-cleaning by this tech age. You can add sokme distortion in order to differentiate normal view from camera view as well as len s overlay.. PLease address this... and, and make them directional. Just cuz who would mount a camera like that and not expect to be able to change view angle.
This is one of the unneccessary requests we have been dealng with for a log time and should warrant attention finally. Pleqase fix. I mean, sure, they may gety dirty over a long time but pretty sure, like a mirror, somone is going to clean it... If they aren't self-cleaning by this tech age. You can add sokme distortion in order to differentiate normal view from camera view as well as len s overlay.. PLease address this... and, and make them directional. Just cuz who would mount a camera like that and not expect to be able to change view angle.
This... this is a massive pain guys. It can't be that hard to just make camera view's appearance a tiny bit more clean. Even just fading the lines in the view would help so much.
This... this is a massive pain guys. It can't be that hard to just make camera view's appearance a tiny bit more clean. Even just fading the lines in the view would help so much.
A good way to make this one more interesting would be to add the option of picking a specific camera overlay/profile, according to what it's for. "Dirty camera" can stay the default, but it'd be nice to have "clean", "large crosshair", "small crosshair", "split focus circle" and so on as other options.
A good way to make this one more interesting would be to add the option of picking a specific camera overlay/profile, according to what it's for. "Dirty camera" can stay the default, but it'd be nice to have "clean", "large crosshair", "small crosshair", "split focus circle" and so on as other options.
Well... at the very least, lets have a rag tool and a Character action that shows them cleaning the lens. Let it last for a couple of hours just for fun. Something. I mean, can you imagine the traffic light cameras being so bad? Everyone would get off on a technicality due to bad images.
Well... at the very least, lets have a rag tool and a Character action that shows them cleaning the lens. Let it last for a couple of hours just for fun. Something. I mean, can you imagine the traffic light cameras being so bad? Everyone would get off on a technicality due to bad images.
There are mods that remove the visual effect like this one: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1410775501
There are mods that remove the visual effect like this one: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1410775501
Clear Camera Screen and Camera Panning are must-have mods in SE, and they really should be in the base game. I don't know what happened in the future that turned current high-resolution cameras into the crap we have to deal with in Space Engineers, but it is as ridiculous as it is breaking that feature. NASA can show us crisp-clear high-resolution pictures from Mars, but we can't see anything through our local and very important docking cam.
Clear Camera Screen and Camera Panning are must-have mods in SE, and they really should be in the base game. I don't know what happened in the future that turned current high-resolution cameras into the crap we have to deal with in Space Engineers, but it is as ridiculous as it is breaking that feature. NASA can show us crisp-clear high-resolution pictures from Mars, but we can't see anything through our local and very important docking cam.
I really like I Really Ought to Clean That Camera. It doesn't just remove the overlay, but it replaces it with a much cleaner one where you can actually see properly and at the same time retain a feeling that you're using a camera and not just teleported somewhere. I think this would be a good solution for the vanilla game.
I really like I Really Ought to Clean That Camera. It doesn't just remove the overlay, but it replaces it with a much cleaner one where you can actually see properly and at the same time retain a feeling that you're using a camera and not just teleported somewhere. I think this would be a good solution for the vanilla game.
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