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Games with webcam support?
shaolindrunkard:
I'm considering adding a webcam to my cab, the only 2 games I know of that will make use of it are Daytona Championship and MK GP DX. Does anybody know of any other games that use a webcam? Also anybody have any idea on how to rotate a webcam image on a per game basis? I know the camera has to be rotated with Daytona and I've heard some cameras have to be rotated with MK GP DX. I don't want to buy a camera if I have to mount it in a strange way...
I was thinking about getting this camera. Since it will be easily mountable and look like a built in on my cab.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N07OHYF
Howard_Casto:
I would hold out a bit on buying a webcam. We've got one guy that purchased the webcam in Daytona 3 in hopes that it might fix the billboard issues.... if it does then obviously that would be the one to get. (It's about the same price.)
Since a webcam is a hardware device and the games tap into it directly, there isn't an easy way to rotate the image. It might be possible to route it through a software based webcam like splitcam and rotate it via software, but most likely what will happen is the game will detect the real webcam as the primary camera and it wouldn't work anyway.
By far the easiest solution would be to mount the camera on a servo arm and use a cheap avr to rotate it when needed.
As for games that use webcams, I don't know of a lot. I believe there are some in arcades right now, but unless they are made working that won't help you.
shaolindrunkard:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 20, 2018, 07:50:02 pm ---I would hold out a bit on buying a webcam. We've got one guy that purchased the webcam in Daytona 3 in hopes that it might fix the billboard issues.... if it does then obviously that would be the one to get. (It's about the same price.)
Since a webcam is a hardware device and the games tap into it directly, there isn't an easy way to rotate the image. It might be possible to route it through a software based webcam like splitcam and rotate it via software, but most likely what will happen is the game will detect the real webcam as the primary camera and it wouldn't work anyway.
By far the easiest solution would be to mount the camera on a servo arm and use a cheap avr to rotate it when needed.
As for games that use webcams, I don't know of a lot. I believe there are some in arcades right now, but unless they are made working that won't help you.
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The billboard is of no interest to me, I mean I'm not going to add a second lcd screen on to my cab for one game. Nor would I go thought the time or expense to do that for all 4 cabs on my 4 player setup as cool as that would be. I won't be going though the trouble of adding any kind of servo motor setup either, too much time and expense. I guess I'll just have to get a webcam and experiment with software. And if that doesn't work maybe I'll get lucky and both games will have the camera rotated the same way. Or maybe I can come up with a mechanism to rotate the camera manually if I decide I really need it...
Thanks for the response.
nugarp:
I had one of the ones the other guy pointed out in the Daytona thread delivered to my apartment tonight. I'll probably give it a go tomorrow when I get back and report on it.
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Boomslang:
Yeah Daytona Championship USA and Mario Kart obviously. Daytona USA 1 actually had some kind of cctv camera thing but I've only seen photos or a giant camera sitting on dashboard, not sure what it did or just seperate monitor
Storm Racer G and Dead Heat had webcams too
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