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Kinovea - Forums → Ideas and feature requests → Spotlight improvement
Hi
Would it be possible to get an improvement to the spotlight t feature where you can highlight more than one player in a game...possibly even with different colors.
Something like this with the little colored discs under the players feet.....don't think it needs the full height color...just the disc under the feet would be nice
Yeah I've seen this, it's interesting, but it's mainly used along with proper player tracking no?
It would be static in Kinovea because tracking for team sports requires a different approach than the currently implemented tracking algorithm and that's a big pandora's box.
For the ellipse itself, it may look simple but in order to properly hide the part of the drawing behind the legs of the player it needs to know what's the background and what's the player. At the moment the drawing tools in Kinovea don't have ways to do that. (Maybe it could be done simply with chroma-keying on the grass color, not sure)
I do want to improve the tools to highlight things though. At the very least have a simple free-hand highlighter.
Note that in the (unlikely) case that you already have the whole field calibrated with a perspective grid you could directly use the circle tool to do this. Keeping in mind that it won't properly hide the back part behind the legs of the player.
So its not a simple as just modify the current Spotlight tool.
That works kind of alright, but if you highlight 2 players, and they happen to overlap during a play, then the spotlights cancel each other out and whee they overlap it is shaded.
As for the ellipse under the feet....I don't think it needs to be that complicated to have it do behind the feet. A simple ellipse under the feet to begin with would be fine at least for me 
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