Following a body with a camera

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• Niicodemus Member

  June 2013 Accepted Answer

  I wrote a camera class that helps with this.
  
  https://github.com/nshafer/KineticZoomCamera/blob/master/Camera.lua
  
  Just add all of your sprites as a child of the camera, including your backgrounds, ground, car, etc. Then you can call camera:centerPoint() with the x and y of the car, and it will always be in the center.
  
  You will probably want to remove the touch events so that the camera only ever follows the car.
  
  Thanks,
  Nathan Shafer

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• hgvyas123 Guru

  June 2013 edited June 2013

  i am also making game somewhat similar to this however i am not using monster truck
  
  

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• thanhquan1512 Guru

  June 2013

  i am also making game somewhat similar to this however i am not using monster truck
  

  Just make it easy to imagine my ideas, I haven't played monster truck yet
  
  

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• thanhquan1512 Guru

  June 2013 edited June 2013

  @Niicodemus: Working perfectly, thank you very much, you saved my day
  
  p/s: That's why I love Gideros forum. Stuck on something? Just ask, and sure your problem will be solved.

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• Niicodemus Member

  June 2013

  Glad I could help!

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• BigWinston Member

  August 2013

  Hi There,
  
  Niicodemus, I'm having a play around with your Camera class. It works very well and I find your code nice and clean - easy to read.
  
  I'm attempting to use your Camera class to move around a physics based game I'm working on, the problem is, the Camera class moves the sprites around, but the physical bodies aren't affected. How could this be overcome using your class?
  
  Thanks!

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• xGuilt Member

  August 2013

  Good day @Niicodemus i've tried using your camera class but i've encountered a problem. I've added all the sprites i have and centered the camera to one sprite but the problem is now i can't move the sprite's body. There was no error but the applyLinearImpulse doesn't seem to work on a body of a sprite added to the camera?

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• xGuilt Member

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  Ok i've managed to fix this part, but now the camera isn't following the main sprite

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• BigWinston Member

  August 2013

  Nevermind - I done something stupid and had added my bodies to the scene, not the camera! Working fine now, thanks! >-

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• chipster123 Member

  August 2013

  Nevermind - I done something stupid and had added my bodies to the scene, not the camera! Working fine now, thanks! >-

  Any chance you can share your updates?
  

  http://www.kosidossapps.com

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• HubertRonald Member

  August 2013

  Ok i've managed to fix this part, but now the camera isn't following the main sprite

  Hi @xGuilt
  
  I think you could do the following, if I have understood well your question:
  
  Camera Class has a function Camera:centerPoint(x, y)
  
  You use this function over main sprite to update its position.
  
  I hope I've helped you

  
  [-] Liasoft

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