Question about the camera

azavega

Hi again...
I need to know if by any chance it a way to get the coordinates of the center of the camera while its moving to constrain those values to an attribute... any help?

gyroscope

Hi, I think I'm correct in saying that the camera origin can't be moved, you can only resize the camera area with the same origin; and so the coordinates of the centre of the camera will always be the same, the centre of the screen, i.e for iPhone, 240/160. Hope this is right! And hope that helps. :-)

scitunes

you can get it by unlocking an instance of a prototype.

The center is camera.originX+240 , camera.originY+160 if it is not zoomed in or out

scitunes

gyroscope said:
Hi, I think I'm correct in saying that the camera origin can't be moved, you can only resize the camera area with the same origin; and so the coordinates of the centre of the camera will always be the same, the centre of the screen, i.e for iPhone, 240/160. Hope this is right! And hope that helps. :-)

No it can be moved like anything else, but you can only access it in instances that are unlocked

gazjm

if you constrain x to origin.x +240 and y to origin.y+160 for landscape

or constrain x to origin.x +160 and y to origin.y+240 for portrait

I believe that should do it.

You can change the origin, in my latest game bounty hunter I interpolate the origin position between 0,320,640 and 960 to create a scrolling effect between menu screens.

gazjm

haha, beaten this time!

gyroscope

scitunes said:
No it can be moved like anything else, but you can only access it in instances that are unlocked

Ah of course, just found it in Scene Attributes; must have forgotten about that. Thanks scitunes.
:-)

azavega

Thank you guys... Your help was pretty good actually... Didnt know you can acces to the camera if you unlock a prototype...
Thanks again.... you guys rock...