Short Easy Camera Question

[tornadotwins]

I was reading up in the docs about cameras and one of the options for ‘clear flags’ is ‘depth only’. It says:

Depth Only
If you wanted to draw a player’s gun without letting it get clipped inside the environment, you would set one Camera at Depth 0 to draw the environment, and another Camera at Depth 1 to draw the weapon alone. The weapon Camera’s Clear Flags should be set to to depth only. This will keep the graphical display of the environment on the screen, but discard all information about where each object exists in 3-D space. When the gun is drawn, the opaque parts will completely cover anything drawn, regardless of how close the gun is to the wall.

I get most of it. One cam (the gun cam) is set to depth=1 and the environment cam is set to depth=0.
I also get that you have to set the gun cam to ‘depth only’.

But here’s what I don’t get: why will the gun cam know to only render the gun? Does the gun itself need to be set to a certain ‘depth group’?

Call me a newbie (I wouldn’t blame you), but if you have any info on the matter I would be happy to know!
Cheers!
-TT

[jgodfrey_1]

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But here’s what I don’t get: why will the gun cam know to only render the gun? Does the gun itself need to be set to a certain ‘depth group’?

Place the gun on a specific layer (say, “Gun”). Now, on the gun camera, set the “culling mask” to that layer (so “Gun” in the example).

Jeff