Scrolling. Anyone?

svnsvn Member Posts: 445
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
HELP US, PLEASE! Me and my brother are trying to create a platformer(thanks to Fire Maple Games for their helpful tutorial), but we don't know how to make the scene scroll. When we preview, the games only shows a certain amount of screen and when our actor Player 1 moves higher than what's visible, the camera won't follow it. We tried using the camera control feature for Player 1 and set the scene to Scrollable, but nothing works. PLEASE HELP!

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  • 11clock11clock Member Posts: 450
    I believe that there is a behavior that causes the camera to follow the desired actor. I think it's called "Camera Follow" or something.
  • svnsvn Member Posts: 445
    Thank you very much, 11clock. We will try it out. If it don't work, please update us with any other info. Thanks, again.
  • svnsvn Member Posts: 445
    We tried 11clock's tip, although it was helpful, it didn't work. Thanks, though. Do you have any specific ways to do it?
  • Captain_AverageCaptain_Average Member Posts: 12
    Hey svn,

    Camera Control, from the Cookbook.



    If you're feeling ambitious, check out this more advanced Parallax scrolling technique, from Utopian Games.



    Good luck with the game!
  • entersimonentersimon Member, PRO Posts: 273
    Make sure the actor that's controlling the camera is on a scrollable layer and also that in your scene attributes you have Wrap X and Wrap Y both checked. Also make sure you cut the size of the camera down to fit with what you're looking to get out of your game. By default the camera area is very large, and it will only move once your camera controller actor gets very cose to the edge.
  • GingerBGamesGingerBGames Member Posts: 390
    Yes, be sure in your scene Layer, that the actor in in the scrollable selection, or nothing is going to happen. Easily overlooked, often frustrating until you figure out that you have forget this.
  • svnsvn Member Posts: 445
    Thanks to all of you, especially Captain_Average for his helpful video. We will utilize these tricks. Meanwhile, we are starting a new project where you use one tap to perform several actions(like an excellent game called Chop Chop Ninja by Gamerizon)
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