Any way to have cameras selectively render things?

[piboistudios]

I have a turn based game running on a server that then records GIFs of the battle and sends replays to chatrooms (like Slack, Discord, etc..)

I can add multiple cameras with FlxG to render/record multiple battle scenes concurrently, but is it possible to utilize the exact same battle scene, but show different characters/monsters/fx for different cameras? e.g. Only show certain FlxGroups to certain cameras

[piboistudios]

Nevermind, see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8176178/1538301

[Geokureli]

worth mentioning that this the article you linked in almost 11 years old and refers to the Action Script version of flixel. the following:

The biggest frustration: Currently FlxGroup does not pass its cameras on to its members. Hopefully this will be added into future versions of Flixel

This is not true, anymore. you can set a group's cameras and it will affect all of it's member's cameras (unless that member's cameras or camera field was specifically set). In fact I recommend doing this in most cases

[Geokureli]

All sprites will, by default, draw to all cameras set as a default draw target, to only have certain cameras draw a sprite you must set either it's cameras or camera (which just sets cameras = [cam]) fields.

FlxGroups have a cameras field as well, setting it will set the default cameras of any child sprite it contains. However, any child sprite of that group that has it's own cameras set will draw to those cameras instead of the group's.

Note: I wanted wrote a separate answer so that future people searching this aren't deferred to a ~11 year old stack overflow link.