New camera options when controlling multiple characters

[craggy tide]

Currently, the camera tries to fit all characters on screen at all times. If a maker wants them to go off on their own separate journeys, things on the screen may end up really, really tiny and hard to see (see provided image). It's also not perfect, and characters may end up getting cut off the screen entirely.

I'd like to suggest a couple changes for characters being controlled by a single person:

1. Have the option for (or default it to) having the camera centered on one character.

2. When a character is not on the screen for any reason, have a small circle appear on the screen displaying their immediate surroundings while pointing to their location relative to the currently controlled character. This would also allow you to see what each character is doing while controlling them all simultaneously when the camera is centered on one of them.

[languid sigil]

i think split screen would be better tbh-

not sure though

[frank portal]

Yea the problem for this is TRUE multiplayer

Having different camera options between puppet and real MP will introduce gameplay disparity

But we are actually running into this issue in some of the singleplayer dungeons ourselves

[languid sigil]

why not splitscreen as an option?

[frank portal]

Oh

Hmm

Fair point

Would look pretty horrible since I have to split up the screen into 4 quarters

Otherwise it won’t be equal to the view for puppets

[languid sigil]

could make the fourth quarter be queen aster's pov

(it's just her sitting in the throne room the whole time)

[frank portal]

Or showing the map screen

Lol

Def could work

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queen aster streaming on twitch

[languid sigil]

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[knotty fiber]

This is a good idea. and then maybe make split-screen vs. full screen be a tag

Also if they could merge when they are all in a boss room, that would be great but understandably hard

[frank portal]

if anything it would be a choice yep

[frank portal]

yea merging split screen would go hard

[sterile harbor]

Would be like Lego Star Wars 3 splitscreen where if the two players get close enough, the screen combines

[frank portal]

yep

problem is that merging doesnt work with 3 players

at least i dont see a good option

[sterile harbor]

splitscreen in general would be weird with 3 players

[knotty fiber]

yeah

I do like the 3 screens and then map

so players can see the locations relative to each other