I love the camera tool and I use it a lot myself especially when exploring really nice condos but I kinda feel like it’s a bit lacking.
The one thing I really dislike about it is that I often find myself struggling to find a good position for taking photos/screenshots at the ‘Z’ key’s fixed zoom FOV. It’d be nice to at least have the ability to manually set the FOV in GMod’s camera style or something similar.
It’d also be nice if the camera system was a bit more expanded with maybe filters and DoF aperture FX and stuff, although that seems like a more ambitious and time consuming suggestion so I wouldn’t expect it to get added any time soon or ever, especially since I don’t think there’s that big of a user base that uses the camera for anything more than just funny screenshots and stuff, and I’m not sure if UE’s renderer would allow for that without too much effort.
By the way, I couldn’t find any other threads about this, so I apologize if someone’s already suggested this or if it’s already been talked about.
This is actually a really good idea. All the camera does is remove your HUD, but you can turn off your HUD whenever by pressing F5. The right click zoom is also the same FOV as the Z zoom, meaning that both of the camera’s key features are redundant (unless you really care about the little vwoom and click sound effects the camera makes). To add to your suggestion, I suggest that the camera should have a flash option that, when enabled, spawns a bright light (brighter than the flashlight?) when you take a photo.
Sorry to necro this, but I still feel like most of the suggestion is relevant since the tool isn’t really doing anything right now that you can’t already get with the HUD toggle and zoom key. But I wanted to ask a question about this:
To add to your suggestion, I suggest that the camera should have a flash option that, when enabled, spawns a bright light (brighter than the flashlight?) when you take a photo.
I swear that used to be a thing a year or two ago, was it not? I remember the flash going off when I’d take pictures and other players could see it, but that’s no longer the case now?
I’d like if we could disable the Steam screenshotting part of the tool and basically turn it into a toy so we can use it as a fake camera with the flash going off and a sound playing for everyone nearby.
Same about the Steam screenshotting thing. As useful and convenient as it is, I don’t always wanna take screenshots with it and fill up my drive even more. Also, as an extra suggestion from myself: Maybe we could have the camera print out the image instead and you could choose to use it as a Canvas item that goes into your inventory with an already set image from the camera on it after the printing out animation is done? You know, like the old cameras. Just thought that could be a nice (and funny) thing to have.
Personally, if the camera isn’t going to be as advanced as what you’re suggesting, I think it’d be nice if the camera were to instead function similarly to, if not exactly like, the camera in Garry’s Mod.
Well yeah, but the camera in Garry’s Mod saves screenshots by default, so at least having an option to disable that over in Tower would be a nice little thing to have.