rotating camera in mmf2

[The_Alee]

Just make your own engine. Its not THAT hard. I made a zooming engine once. You just need a zoomfactor (say 2x zoom factor would make everything 2x smaller), and have 4 values for each object, their X,Y positions on screen and their X,Y positions if they were at full zoom. You need to displace all objects from the camera when it zooms (the camera will probably be at the center of the screen).

Just write out a system and give it a go

[Kalnar]

Does anyone have a doc for this app. I downloaded it and would like to use it for zooming the entire frame in and out but have no idea how.

[Kalnar]

Alee, I think thats doable but I'm guessing that it would be really inefficient performance wise.

[MechatheSlag]

Find Andos (use the search thingy in the forums) and click on the link in his signature.

The viewport object doesn't have a rotation feature. It's greyed out, indicating it hasn't been implemented yet.

As I said, there's a demo out where you can use this feature. I'd bet this demo isn't an official one and therefore I won't link it on these forums, but I bet a quick google search would do it.

[The_Alee]

On the contrary. I think it would be more inefficient to use an extension or similar. Custom made things are usually more efficient.

[DavidN]

Operations performed in an extension, if programmed correctly, are faster than those through events.

[The_Alee]

But I would assume that extensions would go ahead and rotate all pixels on the screen - If you need anything less than all pixels rotated (i only needed player objects zoomed/rotated as the game was set in space) It would be a little inefficient.

Well i suppose most people's games will need all pixels moved (wow thats got to be demanding on the hardware).

[Dynamite]

I have the viewport object and I tried to make the camera zoom in but it didn't really workout. http://clickteam.info/neatwares/extensions/search/Viewport/

[Dines]

Where is Andos? If the source for Rotate is already there, can't someone just ask him to compile it, or for permission for them to compile it on his behalf? It'd be very useful.

[Kalnar]

Does anyone know how to work this object? I've tried to zoom ect but can't make it do anything.

Dynamite what problems did you have. The closest I've come to zooming the screen was having it instently snap in to a small part of my background.