Dynamic Camera Pan/Zoom based on multiple objects

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Published on 26 Jun, 2017. Last updated 19 Feb, 2019

The Intro

For the recent C3Jam

, I worked on a game called BLU. Its fast-paced strategy platformer with AI enemy bots that use platformer pathfinding. In the game, you control a blue square and try to paint the arena blue, while 3 enemies with different skills and objectives, try to kill you or undo your work. Random power-ups spawn which give your character special abilities for a short time.

Rather than having a static camera showing the view of the entire arena at all times, I wanted the camera to be dynamic to achieve the following objectives:

o Focus on all active objects (player, bots, powerups) at same time

o Zoom in when objects are closer

o Zoom out when objects are apart

o Pan and follow all active objects

The result was something like this...

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In this tutorial, we will see how this was done.

Pre-requisites

This tutorial builds on top of the concepts explained in another tutorial I had written for "Smooth scrolling with inertia". Please go through that tutorial first and come back here.

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  • I'm definitely going to further review this and see if it's something I can implement into my current or future projects. Your video was very impressive.

    • Thank you for your comment and appreciate you taking the time to read the tutorial!

      I was inspired to develop this while looking at the gameplay footage of the steam game "Sombrero", also made with Construct (2).

  • hi abhishan, i saw your platformer pathfinding post, do you still have this construct 2 project? i would love to buy it!