Does anyone do moving maps? 2D

1000h

So generally I think people like to have their actor sprite translate through whatever plane it travels on, but is there anyone out there who prefers to draw the map so that their actor is either mostly at 0,0 or within some small range to 0,0?

Ross

Why would you do that? It seems like that would only make sense for an infinite runner or something with procedurally generated terrain and obstacles that are created in front of the player and destroyed after they move past. [Edit]: Actually I just described what I do with my game, hah.

1000h

That's exactly it, just wondering how many people are doing this in their games. The thing is, if you are doing a continuous 2D map, you can either make a control with a size that will encompass the total dimensions of however many maps will be connecting, or you can just have a control with a small area that the maps move in and out of... or so I think is the case.  A sprite that is a child of a control can only move within the boundaries of the control.  Maybe it is a better idea to just use 3D sprites, so you don't have to worry about an element being confined to a control's area?

Ross

Oh, you're talking about an in-game map? I was thinking map == level. So if I understand correctly, you're wondering how to mask it off so it only covers part of the screen? I think the easiest way might be to use a light2D to mask it. Somebody also just fixed the code for multiple viewports a few days ago (apparently it was ancient and not actually functioning), so that might be a better option.

beelzy

You can also use the canvas_item_set_clip() function under _draw(): http://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/classes/class_visualserver.html?highlight=canvas_item_set_clip#class-visualserver-canvas-item-set-clip That's what I do in my game. I don't exactly know which types of nodes it works for, but I think it's a 2D polygon in mine.