Zoom Levels and Scrolling?

[Michael_Gummelt]

Anyone know if you can zoom in and out of the view runtime? In my Space Wars/Star Control homage, I'd like to zoom in the view on the 2 combatants when they're close together, and pull away when they're far apart (like Star Control 2). But I don't see any option to control the zoom of the game.

Also, if I were to zoom in, I'd need to be able to make the game scroll and focus on the point *between* the two ships. Since you can't use a calculation in the "center window in frame" action, I'd have to make an invisible active object that calculates the position between the two ships and sets itself there every frame... anyone know of a better way?

Thanks!

[Michael_Gummelt]

Anyone know if you can zoom in and out of the view runtime? In my Space Wars/Star Control homage, I'd like to zoom in the view on the 2 combatants when they're close together, and pull away when they're far apart (like Star Control 2). But I don't see any option to control the zoom of the game.

Also, if I were to zoom in, I'd need to be able to make the game scroll and focus on the point *between* the two ships. Since you can't use a calculation in the "center window in frame" action, I'd have to make an invisible active object that calculates the position between the two ships and sets itself there every frame... anyone know of a better way?

Thanks!

[Alonso]

You can (could) do it with the Zoom object, but it's not converted for MMF2 (yet?).

[Alonso]

You can (could) do it with the Zoom object, but it's not converted for MMF2 (yet?).

[BrandonC]

And if it doesn't come any time soon, perhaps you could work out some sort of math system, where you take advantage of changing object sizing at runtime? However this would mean no backgrounds, cause they wouldn't be changable.

[BrandonC]

And if it doesn't come any time soon, perhaps you could work out some sort of math system, where you take advantage of changing object sizing at runtime? However this would mean no backgrounds, cause they wouldn't be changable.

[BrashMonkey]

this is one of the great may uses for the viewport object. You can use it to easily zoom in on the screen. Just make an invisible "camera" that is always between both players and cneter the zooming area around the camera.

There was a hack to make it so you could even zoom OUT (pan back) with the zoom object in MMF 1.5 with the viewport object, but it had it's limitations and I've not tried it yet with MMF 2.

good luck

[BrashMonkey]

this is one of the great may uses for the viewport object. You can use it to easily zoom in on the screen. Just make an invisible "camera" that is always between both players and cneter the zooming area around the camera.

There was a hack to make it so you could even zoom OUT (pan back) with the zoom object in MMF 1.5 with the viewport object, but it had it's limitations and I've not tried it yet with MMF 2.

good luck

[Michael_Gummelt]

[]this is one of the great may uses for the viewport object. You can use it to easily zoom in on the screen. Just make an invisible "camera" that is always between both players and cneter the zooming area around the camera.

There was a hack to make it so you could even zoom OUT (pan back) with the zoom object in MMF 1.5 with the viewport object, but it had it's limitations and I've not tried it yet with MMF 2.

good luck [/]

Well, to be like Star Control 2, there would be 3 zoom levels - all the way out, medium and close-up. If I made my default view all the way out, then had 2 levels of zoom, then that could do it. The only problem would be that my max play area would be defined by my resolution... meaning that:

1) In the default view, I couldn't do any scrolling in case the one of the ships wrapped off the far side from the other ship.

and

2) If I restrict the play area to, say, 800x600 (because that would be the max res I'd expect people to support), it's not a huge play area like SC2... but, I suppose I could do it.

Yes, ideally I'd like to just be able to set any zoom level from, say, 25% to 200%, but I guess that's not a feature of MMF2? It's odd as they already do image scaling for the frame editor, but I suppose it's more complicated than that... :/

[Michael_Gummelt]

[]this is one of the great may uses for the viewport object. You can use it to easily zoom in on the screen. Just make an invisible "camera" that is always between both players and cneter the zooming area around the camera.

There was a hack to make it so you could even zoom OUT (pan back) with the zoom object in MMF 1.5 with the viewport object, but it had it's limitations and I've not tried it yet with MMF 2.

good luck [/]

Well, to be like Star Control 2, there would be 3 zoom levels - all the way out, medium and close-up. If I made my default view all the way out, then had 2 levels of zoom, then that could do it. The only problem would be that my max play area would be defined by my resolution... meaning that:

1) In the default view, I couldn't do any scrolling in case the one of the ships wrapped off the far side from the other ship.

and

2) If I restrict the play area to, say, 800x600 (because that would be the max res I'd expect people to support), it's not a huge play area like SC2... but, I suppose I could do it.

Yes, ideally I'd like to just be able to set any zoom level from, say, 25% to 200%, but I guess that's not a feature of MMF2? It's odd as they already do image scaling for the frame editor, but I suppose it's more complicated than that... :/