Security Camera: Using the Save game screenshot elsewhere in the game and recording gameplay
Hi, I'm creating a retro point'n'click adventure game. AC has a built-in screenshot system in place for the purpose of save game images. I was wondering if the same feature could be used elsewhere in the game? Is it possible to create, for example, a security camera that would snap a screenshot of a scene using an action... one that could be saved and shown elsewhere (like on a monitor in a security room)? Would this be complicated to set up?
A further security camera thought: using merely AC as it is, is it possible to record the gameplay (as in, player's movements and actions in a scene) after a certain point in time (e.g. after a specific action), FOR a certain period of time (e.g. until a specific action), and then have those play back in a security room monitor view (using a lookalike of the player as a separate, NPC game object, repeating all the movements, performing all the actions, etc.)?
I'm aware these are rather big and open questions and a simple reply or a script probably won't suffice here, especially for the latter one. I'm mostly looking for a simple yes/no with some comments. Of course all possible hints at the right direction are greatly appreciated.
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Just a further note, the game is 2D and using Sprites Unity.
AC's screenshot feature leverages Unity's provided ReadPixels function. It'd be a case of writing a separate script that uses this same function/technique, rather than leveraging AC's implementation of it for save-game screenshots.
If what the security camera shows is in the same scene as the camera itself, though, you should be able to achieve this using a Render Texture applied to a Material that's used by the camera's monitor. In either case, though, AC would not be involved.
Not easily, and again custom scripting would be involved.
It depends on how detailed you want a recording to be, but I'd see it as being a case of having a script take note of all the Hotspots that the Player interacted with during a set time, and then separately evaluating this list to run alternative "playback" ActionLists accordingly.
This could be done with the OnHotspotInteract custom event, triggered whenever a Hotspot is interacted with by the Player.