Sprite Scaling/Zooming

AfterBurnett

Can it be done?

Also, I know you can pan the camera but can you also zoom it in and out? Think of Art of Fighting for Neo geo... that's the kind of thing I'm after.

Sorry if these are ultra noob questions, I can't check out the app myself until my Intel mac arrives.

AfterBurnett

Anyone?

IntelligentDesigner

Wouldn't you just interpolate actor.size.Width/Height x and y over time? Maybe through the use of an attribute like game.size.real?

AfterBurnett

Ah, cool, so it can be done!

As I said, I can't actually look at the app myself until my Intel machine arrives (hopefully tomorrow).

Cheers

JGary321

Only problem is that it won't 'zoom out' in the way i think your looking for. You can make everything ON SCREEN smaller this way, but it will not bring more of the scene into view. There is no true zooming function at this time.

IntelligentDesigner

Correct me if I am wrong, but can't you use a screen sized actor as a backdrop? In this way, the scenery could be zoomed in and out.

JGary321

What about all the actors that are off screen? Moving all those actors in proportion & zooming ALL actors in scene would not be feasible. Really depends on the kind of game I guess though. May work on some games.

Definitely give it a try & give a heads-up on how well it works. I would just be worried about performance issues ya know?

AfterBurnett

Hmmm... I guess I'll wait for a true scaling feature. I don't actually NEED it in my fighting game but I'd like to do some retro styled racers in the future (think Out Run and Chase HQ). Sprite scaling would be a brilliant feature to have.

jmp909

try using a controller actor instance and interpolating scene.Camera.Size.Width, scene.Camera.Size.Height

you'll need to do some maths to fix your coordinates though