How to make a "scrolling camera"?

[nivram]

The frame needs to be bigger than the window. Then in the event under the Storyboard Object Scrolling>Center position at 0,0 of your character.

Marv

[MrHoot]

Enchaintainement, that is quit simple. After you have the camera working behind the player, instead of using the Center Window position in frame action, set the Horizontal and Vertical Window Position individually and use the following expressions:

Center Display at X = X( "Player" ) + X( "Player" ) - X( "Camera" )
Center Display at Y = Y( "Player" ) + Y( "Player" ) - Y( "Camera" )

Heya ! Just digging this up a bit

This works really well, however I wish the camera would always stay in front of the player's direction whenever facing left or right instead of recentering on him. Is there a way to do this ?

[Graeme2408]

Create an active and place it so that it's in front of your character, whenever facing left or right; then focus the camera on that instead of the character.