video game consoles
How do video game consoles do split screen gaming. Is it the actual video game or the console?
How does the tv know to respond.
The game is programmed to view the playing area through a virtual "camera". If you play a game that uses splitscreen, there are 2 cameras projecting the image onto the screen, each camera's viewing space is divided to fit one section per camera.
example: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
1 player playing means only 1 camera is active,
let's pretend (which it probably is true but correct me if I'm wrong) that the main resolution for cod4 running on the ps3 is 1280 x 720
The 1 camera will be stretched to fit 1280 pixels across and 720 pixels down
now let's say that there were 2 players playing cod4. the view would normally be split from left to right. so each camera will be 1280 pixels wide and 360 pixels tall with 1 camera on the top half and another on the bottom.
the same can be applied for 3 players or 4 players, however many the game wants to have, though normally it's 4 players maximum.
hope this helps.
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