Habitat Web Camera Usage??

[Chromozome]

Do someone knows how you connect this camera to a screen?? Is it only me or I am missing something?

[Hiphip]

we can't
Unfortunately habitat webcams are just made to increase marketing note
the only cams you can connect are in burrows

[audiolady]

I think we should find a way to do that. How cool would it be to put a camera in the middle of a large habitat, then show it on a screen?

[InsaneChaosRealm]

Originally posted by audiolady:

I think we should find a way to do that. How cool would it be to put a camera in the middle of a large habitat, then show it on a screen?

I've wanted this feature for so long! I feel like there would definitely be some way for them to put this in the game. I'd give my right kidney for this to be a thing and i was so disappointed when i found out it wasn't

[Eightball]

Don't see why not if they already have this feature for burrows, surely it's just a case of copying the code to the habitat camera and tweaking it for it. Most of the work already done.

[Just Kevin]

Is it not a feature in Planet Coaster? You would think they could use the same software.

[SLG]

Web camera means as watchable from a computer. If it was just cameras I believe you can add them to screens.

[Firestar]

Would be really cool if we could link those to Screens. Could show the Animals in the Stables or make something like a nice Watering Hole Camera or a Camera high above the Ground in a Gibbon Enclosure

[Just Kevin]

The wildlife type cams in PZ that 'stream to the net', are the only cams in the game or they not? Apart from the security ones that is, that you can only click on to look through. Odd that the security guards don't have a control centre for them. I am not counting the cam icons you can use to follow animals and people around with, and look inside staff buildings and what not.

[Woddle]

You can't.

[Silver Arrow]

I feel like instead of putting what the web camera sees on the education board, there should be a different camera as the web camera would show the 'web' what is in the zoo as a marketing strategy. I would also like a way to easily add foliage to hide it as I am not particularly fond of having a green box in my conservation style habitat. Anyway, I agree that we should be able to link some sort of camera other than the animal burrow one to the screens.

[Just Kevin]

Those types of wildlife cam are common, and often green. Like a lot of the fauna :-)

[Just Kevin]

But they are temporary ones for use in the wild strapped to trees and are usually not wireless. PZ should provide actual fixed CCTV instead of those. It's not as if it does not use CCTV, even if you cannot see or even place them. They are even in the staff huts!

[SLG]

Exactly is there not a button when clicked will show what the web cameras see? I seem to remembers in the career mode(?) I could see what they saw.

[Just Kevin]

Look in the Zoo tab. I think there's a tab in there which lets you look at what educational things are doing. I think it lists those cams and that you can click on them to look through them. Like you can with the security CCTV. If not then you should be able to! I don't really like those habitat webcams because when you place them they are often upside down, or stuck into a tree sideways and it's fiddly to get them pointed the right way.

[Pee_Bee]

I love the habitat webcams, and it's a really unfortunate omission that their video can't be routed to screens. The webcams are easily adjustable and have a pleasant wide-angle view. They allow you to see animals and their behavior much closer than you can get while visiting the zoo. I always imagined they were for "guests" sitting at home, so they can have a good view of the animals, and that was pretty cool. But a webcam is just a camera - it can be used just like any other camera. I carried a laptop and webcam outside a few times to film when my camcorder was broken.

Having the ability to route habitat webcams to screens would have several legit uses. For example, guests could watch animals that are hiding from guests in their private, secluded places (they won't know they're being watched!).

But also, I want to display wecam video of my penguin habitat down below in the underwater viewing area. That way guests can know whether penguins are headed for the water at all, or if they are waiting down there for no good reason. It would be fun to watch a particular penguin run into the water on the screen, then see that same animal diving in front of you underwater. Or vice versa (watching the underwater dive on a screen at ground level). It provides the whole picture of what the animal is doing from a single location, and I think that's fascinating and educational.

It's similar to the way that hovering or underwater drones have given us unique perspectives nobody ever saw before.

Please Frontier, add this feature - there are many legit purposes for routing webcams to screens. (And of course, the zoo will still route that video to their website for viewers at home as well). I promise I won't abuse this feature by routing a webcam from the bathroom to a screen in the staff room.