Using more than one camera

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Sledge

Am I on the right lines with trying to use 2 cameras? If so, how do I tell Blitz which items to draw using which camera?

The only way (AFAIK) is either by manually hiding everything from the appropriate camera, rendering separately, then compositing the renders OR separating elements for each camera (spatially) so that they fall only within the intended camera's view and having them render over the top of one another:

Open in online IDE

Graphics3D 800,600,0,2
cam1=CreateCamera()
cam2=CreateCamera() : CameraClsMode cam2,False,True

PositionEntity cam2,0,0,1000


cube=CreateCube() : EntityColor cube,100,100,200
sphere=CreateSphere() : EntityColor sphere,200,100,100

PositionEntity cube,0,0,10

While Not KeyHit(1)
TurnEntity cube,1,2,3
sphereX=sphereX+1 : If sphereX>359 Then sphereX=sphereX-360
PositionEntity sphere,Cos(sphereX),0,1010


RenderWorld
Flip
Wend