How to have different locations displayed on screen at the same time in 2D?

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2D game. Camera on player character.

I want to display other locations on screen while my camera still on player. Like having security camera watching other locations of my game, and output to a control node on screen. When the player is near the watched location, the player should be seen on those security camera.

How should I do it?

I tried using SubViewport with camera output as texture rendered to a sprite. But that forces me to put scene as child node of the SubViewport, which removes it from the primary viewport.

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you have to replicate your current scene inside the subviewport to have something like a camera

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Ok, after searching for a bit, I find the easy solution: just set the world_2d attribute of the SubViewport to your primary viewport’s world_2d should work. Which means simply adding the following script to your top node:

func _ready():
	$Path_to_your_SubViewport/SubViewport.world_2d = get_viewport().world_2d

There is currently no editor option on SubViewport for this, so it has to be done by code.

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