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mutantdevle

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Free View Zone [EEU]

▼Old Version

Probably needs a better name.

Basically, you stand inside the block (action block) and press C to interact. Then, when you try to move with WASD/arrows, instead of moving your smiley you instead move the camera. This allows you to then view the world as if you were flying through everything in god mode but without moving your smiley.

Optional extras on the block could include a timer meaning you can only use it for X seconds before it snaps your camera back to your smiley. Or perhaps have a changeable limit on how far out you can move the camera, eg. set the value of the block to 20 and you can only move the centre of the camera 20 blocks from where your smiley is. Of course, having both these values at 0 just makes it infinite for both. I think the block would still be a good addition without either of these functions though.

A free view zone would be drawn out the same way you would a music zone. However, free view zones come with a special action block called a free view block. When you press Y on a free view block you will be able to move the camera (not your smiley) around the inside of the zone. The edges of the camera will not be able to go outside the edges of the zone. If, due to the placement of the free view block inside the zone, the camera edge starts outside of the zone, then the camera will not be able to move any further outside the zone but can be moved back into it. Once in, the camera will not be able to move back out again. If the player presses y again, or is otherwise moved from the block (eg, curse has killed them, the block was on a key door, timed door, etc.), the camera will snap back to view the player.

▼visual demonstration

Key:
Black dots = free view block
Red, Blue and Yellow rectangles: 3 seperate zones.

Using block 1 will put the player into free view mode, however, they will not be able to move the camera as the block is not inside any zone.
Using block 2 allows the player to move the camera inside the red zone.
Using block 3 allows the player to move the camera inside both the red and the yellow zones (moving fully into the yellow zone wouldn't prevent the player from then moving back into the overlap or the red zone).
Using block 4 allows the player to move the camera inside all of the zones in this image.
Using block 5 allows the player to move the camera inside the blue zone.

I don't know whether zones will be exclusively rectangular in EEU. If they can only be rectangles (rather than defining individual blocks for zones) then the player should probably be able to link 2 zones as the same zone in order to make more complex shapes. Also, zones won't be colourful like shown in this image but instead just labelled as 'free view zone 1', 'free view zone 2', etc.

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Re: Free View Zone [EEU]

Perhaps limit the area where your camera can travel via zones that have been mentioned in EEU
The only use case where I see this being useful is viewing a huge minigame so you have an understanding of its structure before you start playing it

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Re: Free View Zone [EEU]

Binoculars Block

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mutantdevle

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Re: Free View Zone [EEU]

Perhaps limit the area where your camera can travel via zones that have been mentioned in EEU
The only use case where I see this being useful is viewing a huge minigame so you have an understanding of its structure before you start playing it

I've rewritten the function of the suggestion because zones definitely are the way to go with this idea.

Also, I do think that people would be capable of incorporating these zones into gameplay in more creative ways than just viewing big minigames (eg, puzzles or roleplay worlds).

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