Novice scripting advice needed for layers and camera
by Jamie Uhrmacher · in Torque Game Builder · 01/24/2008 (5:12 pm) · 2 replies
In a previous post I posed a question about scripting the camera and its zoom settings.
The folks in these forums were nice enough to help me achieve the results I was seeking.
However, things did not go entirely as expected.
I'm scripting a simple game where the player eats objects (a la the Fish Demo). When they eat a specific number of enemies, the player grows in size. I thought this could be accomplished by zooming the camera out. The problem is that the camera zooms out from everything - the gui, the player, everything.
My question - is there a way to designate objects that will remain at the same scale when the camera zooms out? Can I group objects together on layers and then zoom out from that layer? Or shrink that layer to create the same effect. while keeping the gui layer the same size?
I'm reading the reference material on scene graphs and objects, but I'm not finding the answers I seek.
Thanks in advance!
The folks in these forums were nice enough to help me achieve the results I was seeking.
However, things did not go entirely as expected.
I'm scripting a simple game where the player eats objects (a la the Fish Demo). When they eat a specific number of enemies, the player grows in size. I thought this could be accomplished by zooming the camera out. The problem is that the camera zooms out from everything - the gui, the player, everything.
My question - is there a way to designate objects that will remain at the same scale when the camera zooms out? Can I group objects together on layers and then zoom out from that layer? Or shrink that layer to create the same effect. while keeping the gui layer the same size?
I'm reading the reference material on scene graphs and objects, but I'm not finding the answers I seek.
Thanks in advance!
Torque Owner Dan Maruschak