help with scrolling

[Taco]

Im making a co-op 2 payer game. and i was wondering how u could have the screen scroll with the players but not let the other player get left behind.

[LB]

http://www.clickteam.com/epicenter/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=45090&page=1#Po st45090
Just use it only with bigger play areas for the players, but keep in mind the must be that same or you will encounter bugs. Hope that helped, and don't for get to set share global values!

[DavidN]

You can either have a split-screen effect as posted above, or set the screen to centre between the two players. To do this, it's probably easiest to use a separate object for the "camera" and continually set its X position to X("Player 1") + (X("Player 2") - X("Player 1")/2), and the same for the Y position (I haven't tested that, but the idea is to set the position to the halfway point between the two objects).

Or you could have what some classic game communities I'm in have termed "Annoying sibling scrolling", which was seen in Sonic 2 - one player is scrolled on and actually plays, with the second player as additional support and being returned to the frame when they get too far away.

[LB]

set the screen to centre between the two players. To do this, it's probably easiest to use a separate object for the "camera" and continually set its X position to X("Player 1") + (X("Player 2") - X("Player 1")/2), and the same for the Y position (I haven't tested that, but the idea is to set the position to the halfway point between the two objects).

I've tested it, and it works great.

[Taco]

can u gimme an example? like wat would the code look like?

[LB]

I tried it, and it doesn't work for some reason, how ever, I seemed to have lost a working example of it. I'll try to look for it.

[Taco]

thx alot

[Maverick]

I've seen an example somewhere on the site that was using the shared camera method and the ViewPort object to make the screen scroll in and out (like Smash Brothers when characters got farther apart). I wish I could remember what example that was >_<.

[Taco]

could still use some help guys