Some camera issues

[Storsorgen]

Greetings! I'm looking for the perfect camera system for my game, and after quite some time spent thinking about it, I decided to ask for help!



The camera I'm looking for will always be positioned so that the area under the player takes up about 1/4(or even less) of the screen, like in the sonic games.
When the character jumps, the camera should not follow it up in Y-axis unless it passes a certain height.
I tried to get around this by having the playing field divided into "zones", so that each zone had a certain y-offset that the camera object would align itself by, however this has proven less than optimal.
I tried the Sonic Worlds engine which did a passable job at the camera system I'm looking for, but I couldn't figure out which lines of coded did what I was looking for.

Any ideas on this?

[LB]

Think of having a minimum and maximum line following the camera, and the player triggering them:

---------------------------Min Y---------------------------



---------------------------Center Y---------------------------



---------------------------Max Y---------------------------

If the player goes below Min Y, set the screen Y position to Player Y + Center Y - Min Y.
If the player goes above Max Y, set the screen Y position to Player Y - max Y - Center Y.

[Storsorgen]

Thanks! I'm going to try it and see how it turns out!

[Storsorgen]

Alright, now I know this is a big necro but the issue has come up again, and I realize I never solved it

I implemented this solution, and it works fine when the player goes below min Y, but when he goes above Max Y the camera "snaps" down instead of increasing the Y value bit by bit. Does anyone have an idea why this might be happening?


Edit: Sorry for necroing this, I think I solved it.
The correct formula should be

If the player goes below Min Y, set the screen Y position to Player Y + Center Y - Min Y.
If the player goes above Max Y, set the screen Y position to Player Y - max Y + Center Y.