Follow the Player

[Kuraudo-sama]

How do I make it so that when I walk it will be like a camera following me.

[d-soldier]

The easiest way would to PARENT the view to the player.

[Kuraudo-sama]

The only problem I have with this is when I jump the screen follows that too.

[jman]

make a keydown event, change parent to none and make a collision event for your player against the ground so it changes back

[Game A Gogo]

easiest way around this would be in the view's draw actor

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x=player.x+(view.width/2);

[Kuraudo-sama]

make a keydown event, change parent to none and make a collision event for your player against the ground so it changes back

Thats all fine and great but you can just jump off screen doing that.

easiest way around this would be in the view's draw actor

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x=player.x+(view.width/2);

This doesn't work.

[Game A Gogo]

what does it do?

[Kuraudo-sama]

It makes the screen behave strange, and it scrolls improperly. Like fast on the right, and slow on the left.

[Game A Gogo]

odd...

[Kuraudo-sama]

...uh. Is any one gonna help me?

[pixelpoop]

very easy way is to put this in the draw actor event of the view actor:
x=player_actor.x-160;
//you will need to change the name of the actor and the number
//the number should be half of your view's width. Mine is 160 because my view's width is 320.

For a smoother view follow action:
Go into GE's help menu, under getting started, open "making the view follow the actor 2". It will walk you through the steps.

[J Maker]

here ths is for smooler scroller view:

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double weight = 10;
x = ((weight  - 1)*x + (player.x - width/2))/weight;
y = ((weight  - 1)*x + (player.y - hight/2))/weight;