Dual Virtual Camera

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Nov 20, 2009 12:56 PM #515026

we all have seen (or at least think so) terkoiz's Shock and Shock 2. now, i believe some wonder how he could acheve this cool camera effect during all the fights. the process is simple: you use the right code, and the image of the animation will look like what is behind the camera you made.
i know the code for that camera, and have already implemented it in an (un-published) animation, and it's really awesome. my problem is: is there any way to make a DUAL camera(or two smaller cameras), showing two events happening at the same time, but in different places? i hope some experienced flash programers could help me there.
btw: i have flash pro 8

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ps: forgive my lame english =P

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Nov 20, 2009 2:46 PM #515038

It's called a v-cam and no one's made a dual cam as far as I'm aware..

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Nov 20, 2009 6:31 PM #515056

wait. you mean there is no way, or that there is no way you know about?

putting that aside, i thought of something (an please tell me if you think i am (not) making sense) that could work:
you could create two smaller sub-cameras that don't show their images on the final flash, but on each side of the original, full-sized camera, so the final flash shows the image presented by only one camera, that is showing what is recorded by two sub-cameras! Yes! i am a genius!......... now how do i do that?.......

meh... i'll think of something. meanwhile, someone who knows about this stuff could help out, coz i'm lost a bit in here.... (the paragraph above was just a random moment of intelligence)

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Nov 20, 2009 7:27 PM #515071

Hmm, you could make two seperate animations (and save them as .swf's), and then attach them with the attachMovie(); function. I don't know if you can import .swf's to the timeline without using AS, but if you can, it would probably be better.