Advanced Tile Loader + camera

[luaz]

While I understand the general concept how a "camera" should work, I do not understand how to implement it with Advanced Tile Loader. How to "tie" them together, so that the collision would work and the player's movement would be synchronized with the map's scrolling.

[Roland_Yonaba]

Well, a bit of searching can bring you answers.
Did you go through the examples of use for AdvTiled Loader ?
See Desert_Example, watch out global.tx/global.ty variables, and the push(), translate() and pop() methods.
This tutorial on cameras should help, too.

[luaz]

Well, a bit of searching can bring you answers.
Did you go through the examples of use for AdvTiled Loader ?
See Desert_Example, watch out global.tx/global.ty variables, and the push(), translate() and pop() methods.
This tutorial on cameras should help, too.

I did. I can scroll the camera with set keys, but I want it to scroll with the player. That's the point of this thread - I cannot tie them together, the player AND the tilemap.

[SudoCode]

Update the camera position each frame to playerX and playerY.

[dreadkillz]

There are camera libs that you can check out from searching. If you don't want to use them, check their codes to get an idea of how it works.

[luaz]

I got it working... But I have no idea why it works, it seems as if there's something either missing or too much.

Well, if something won't work, I'll ask for help with my code then. For now, I'm okay with this.