Adjusting clipping plane for Cameras

[tcannonfodder]

Hey there!

I'm working on an update to Telemachus that will allow you to get screenshots of cameras in KSP. I've successfully been able to render cameras to images, but I'm running into some problems with the clipping plane. In short, I can see that the default clipping plane for "Camera 00" is 310, and it looks like there are multiple cameras used to render the image. Some of the cameras have very long clipping distances.

I've been digging into the RasterPropMonitor code and I haven't been able to figure out how it handles creating the camera (especially determining the clipping plane so that it renders what the player expects). The RasterPropMonitor code for creating FlyingCameras is: https://github.com/Mihara/RasterPropMonitor/blob/fa9c57dee50c661cb91d36253508e5ee86ccdb09/RasterPropMonitor/Core/FlyingCamera.cs

Below is a gist of the quick and dirty code I've come up with so far, an example screenshot, and some debug info I put together.

Thanks for the help! With the 1.1+ changes and the number of cameras I'm expecting to render, I want to make sure this feature is efficient and won't eat all the RAM it can find

The Github Gist is here: https://gist.github.com/tcannonfodder/65d68d7fc8038992de61a1f7116bb24d

Render example

 

[JoePatrick1]

My comment from your reddit post in case you didn't see it

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I'm not 100% what you're trying to achieve but if you are confused with how the cameras are set up then you should know that different cameras are used for different ranges which are pieced together.
Here is a video talking a bit more about it and here is a screenshot from it (at 14:11) which sums up what I'm rambling on about.

edit: also I have written two mods that access the default ksp cameras. Kerbal Greenscreen Mod and Controllable Rover Mastcam -These should hopefully give you more idea of what is going on.