Looking for a good formula for camera?

[JonathanC]

Hi, I'm looking for a better camera formula instead of this one:
Always set center of x to float x of "camera"(camera is the active with the floatx value and floaty)
Then: Add to y of ("player")-floaty("camera")/7.0 to floaty
Add to x of ("player")-floatx("camera")/7.0 to floatx.

My only problem is the X,the camera is moving ahead the player and not backward. I want to do an inverted action that will not move ahead the camera. is that possible?

[dragonguy]

Hmm what do you need it for?

[JonathanC]

I want to make the camera goes backward and not ahead of the player in order to see better what comes next when i move.

[dragonguy]

Can you be more specific please, I don't want to give you something that's not what you want.

[JonathanC]

The formula i posted wasn't what i want.. the camera make the player closer to the right edge of the window.. so when i move it is hard to see what comes because the player is a little too close to the right. i need the player to be far from the edge in the direction he is walking.

[JonathanC]

I tried to do that, but it's not working

[JonathanC]

So how do i get it??

[Corentin]

You could center on Xposition+Xspeed, or something like that, maybe Xposition+Xspeed*coefficient. It depends what kind of movement you're using actually

[Mantoid]

Ok, so you want to make it so the camera is infront of the player so you can see ahead of you? Rather than tailing behind?

What you need to do is assign a value for the players directions, so for example:
If player is facing right: Set Value A to 50
If player is facing left: Set Value A to -50

Now, put this Player's value into the scrolling formular and that SHOULD work, in theory. If not, let me know and I'll make an example, I have done this before somewhere...

[JonathanC]

Mantoid, can you make an example of what should work?