Camera follows,

iDeveloperz

Hi everyone, not the bests of times i know. But i really want to finnish this just incase apple disapproves GS. How do you get the camera to follow an actor that goes up? (It will be 100's of the same actor). Its sort of hard to explain, i can email the project if you don't understand.

Thanks.

dee99

depending on what you want to do, I'd use the "control camera" behavior on the actor

iDeveloperz

Unfortunately, that doesn't work due to there being multiple copies of the same actor. It needs to follow the one that was spawned most recently. Or even better the highest.

iDeveloperz

pwetty pwetty pwease tell me how to?

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firemaplegames

Are you making some sort of stacking game?
And the camera always needs to be set to the highest actor?

jweaver911

iDev...

You must not have seen the hopeful post that Yoda made a few hours ago.

http://gamesalad.com/forums/topic.php?id=5498

It would seem like he put some minds at ease.
(This has nothing to do with your question, and I apologize. just thought I'd point out that post to ya!)

iDeveloperz

Thanks guys, ill check it out now.

@ firemaplegames: yep im making a stacking game :P

iDeveloperz

I hope it will be worth it once im done. Because if i can get this right i will hire a graphics designer.

firemaplegames

so you need to keep track of the height of the stack in a global game attribute.

you then need an invisible actor that lives in your scene and has its Y constrained to the stackHeight.

In this invisible Actor, place a Control Camera Behavior.

That is the basic gist of it.

ORBZ made an explosion demo which tracks the height of the highest box:

http://gamesalad.com/game/play/42622

You will need something like that to keep track of the highest actor in the Scene.

iDeveloperz

Cheers fire maples. Its nearly finished, VML is helping. Just need the graphics from a really cheap graphics designer. Also, I have a space to advertise one game. (Free of course for you guys) if anyone wants it just email me. ideveloperz@me.com