camera screen tracking help

jigglybean

Hi all

Ive spent ages looking at tutorials trying to get this to work but its not quite right.

Found a video. This is what I would like to do. The actual file, I can't open in my GS mac version any more

ashtmj

you need to make 2 real global attributes "player X" and "Player Y" and one Boolean called "player left/right"

in your player actor

constrain game.player X to self. position X
constrain game.player Y to self. position Y

then a rule
rule conditions if self. motion X is greater then 0

change game.player left/right to true

in the otherwise

change game.player left/right to false

then make another actor called camera

add a control camera behavior

then a rule

rule conditions if game.player left/right is true

constrain self.position X to game.player X + 200 (or how ever far ahead of the player you want the cam)

in the otherwise

constrain self.position X to game.player X - 200 (or how ever far behind the player you want the cam)

constrain self.position Y to game.player Y

hope that helps

colander

Put a Camera Control behaviour in your Hero actor and set the width of your camera to 0.

jigglybean

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jigglybean

Hey thanks guys

I did mange to figure out a crude way of doing it but will try placing these rules within the actor (didn't think of that lol)