Question Camera Angle Produces Unfair Advantage

Hi all,

I'm having a problem in a game that I'm making due to the angle of the camera. Players looking parallel to the angle of their camera (or "up"/forward from their current z position) can see players that cannot see them in return.

I've including a picture with the rough camera angle from the green player perspective. For the blue player's camera, the green player would be off screen (I've marked roughly where the green player would be on the blue players camera at the bottom right.

Is there any way around this?

 

Just as in real life, people see only a part of the world at any time. Any camera that follows a player will benefit that player. There will be other times that Blue has the advantage. The only way around it is for everyone to have the same camera that sees the whole field, such as a couch co-op game of Overcooked or SuperBomberman.

 

Thanks for the response, I'll take a look at those games.

One solution that I've been playing around with was a fog of war that covers the corners of the screen and is shifted up a bit to cover more at the top of the screen vs bottom of the screen but I was wondering if there was another solution so I didn't have to use it.

 

You might be able to do something interesting with an oblique camera frustum.

Google that up but essentially imagine if your "center of sight" forward was NOT the perfect center of the screen.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ObliqueFrustum.html

Perhaps obliquify it towards each player equally?? Might have some other warpy feel to it though...

 

Thanks for the suggestion Kurt, I think I did play around with that a while ago but was unable to achieve the results I was looking for. I might give it another crack though to see if I missed something.