How to track my actor starting from the left side of the screen?

boodo17

Hi, I want to track my moving actor from starting from the left side of the screen not from the middle. How can i do it?
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Braydon_SFX

Hm. Not sure I understand your question. Can you supply more information? A short video? Pic?

boodo17

how can i post a pic?

Braydon_SFX

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-Timo-

make a actor and make it alpha 0. place it in the middle and put a behavior in it called control camera. (and also the behavior move or accelerate or something like that)
place your 'moving actor' on the place where you want...
in the layers you put the 'moving actor' in a not scrolling layer and the camera in a scrolling layer.
in the upper left corner on the screen your working on there is a mouse and a camera.
click on the camera and move the yellow to the size you want (when the camera tried to go out of the yellow the scene will move with the camera, so I think you want to have it the smallest possible)
hope I explained enough good luck

UtopianGames

http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/43399/camera-trick-1-tutorial#latest

Darren.

boodo17

Here's a screenshot
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tvt47rugxikkrjn/Screen Shot 2013-07-02 at 10.34.28 PM.png


As you can see he cannot be tracked unless he reaches the middle. I want the camera to start tracking him from the position he is in right now.

boodo17

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tvt47rugxikkrjn/Screen Shot 2013-07-02 at 10.34.28 PM.png

As you can see, the camera will only start tracking the actor once he reaches the middle of the screen. How can I move the tracking area itself to the far left where the actor is standing so it starts tracking him instantly when he starts moving?

Darren has posted a video which deals with a similar issue but, the difference is that in the video, he's got a scene.camera.origin.x attribute which is found under the scene attributes tab but i can't insert it into rules because it is not visible.

Please help

RThurman

Merged the threads. (Please don't make multiple threads for the same question.)

Perhaps this older discussion will help:
http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/39370/camera-question