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Hi! I'm trying to do a platform game where the camera only should move when the character gets outside of the current screen. Then the camera should move one screen width/height in the character's moving direction. I've almost got it to work, but as you can see, it's not working exactly as I want it to. I hope someone knows how to do it.

Well, you could start by describing the problem, I don't see anything that's clearly wrong (though there is a flicker when switching to the next screen)

Well, the problem is that when the character goes to the left more than one screen and then goes back again, the camera doesn't follow. I don't know if my way of doing this screen movement is the best so I'm wondering if someone any better idea that actually works without any x and y valuses hard coded, as it is right now. And the flicker is also a problem. I assume that it has something to do with the way I have done the coding..

Hmm, right it seems to be the hardcoding, can't you use some function of camera to get the correct height and width? love.graphics.getHeight()/getWidth()? And, you might want to do something like: (this is with a 2-'unit' area in which you can move to the next screen)

Ok, so what is this code really doing? Can't figure out what the percent sign is doing. In my current code i move the camera with getCamera():setOrigin(x, y). So what is supposed to be the x that the camera is moving to?

eliasaif wrote:Ok, so what is this code really doing? Can't figure out what the percent sign is doing. In my current code i move the camera with getCamera():setOrigin(x, y). So what is supposed to be the x that the camera is moving to?

% means modulus: the rest after an integer division: 17 / 4 = 4 modulus 1, so 17 % 4 = 1.

The x in bartbes's code is (I think) the player position.

This method is still somewhat inflexible. I would suggest looking at Jump Game for a more flexible solution.

Hi again! I still can't find out how to do this.. I've tried something like this code:
The problem is that I can't figure out what I should set the camera origin to. In this code, it sais x and y, but I don't know what the x and y should be. Does anyone have any idea how I can get this working?

Probably the playerx.

I would say something like x = current_x + width / 2 or x = current_x + width. It depends on whether you still want to see a bit of the old position.

The y stays the same, I think.

It's like it's looping the moving process by it self. Something must still be wrong in the code. I've attached the game below.