How to make a player stay and move with Camera2D?

kaidoracer

Hello! I'm trying to make my first complete project, but I ended stopping on simple things. It's a space shooter like Gradius, so I was thinking on make a Camera2D that move automatically through the stage map (I think it's the easier way to place enemies), but how can keep the player inside the Camera2D area and move with it? (the player must move in a 8-way direction on it)

Thanks!

GlyphTheWolf

Hi,

Hmm, I think that should be possible if you prepare it like:

- ParentNode
    - PlayerNode
    - CameraNode

Then you need to move ParentNode automatically through the stage map and user input should move PlayerNode locally inside ParentNode. Of course you need to limit player local position to assure it will stay in camera.

Looking at Gradius I think you could also make player and camera stay in place and just add moving background and enemies/other objects move with constant X speed to the left, but then you need to spawn enemies/object from code probably or at least activate AI behaviours when enemy/object is entering screen.

kaidoracer

Spawning through code was my initial thought, but I think its hard for planning. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try this!