Create a Smooth (and delayed) Follow Camera: HOW?
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For many reasons it's desirable to have a camera that doesn't respond exactly as the character does.
Is there a way to achieve this kind of lerping in hyperPad:
Using maths, and/or physics objects partially or representatively associated with the hero character, I've created some interesting follow cameras. But due to the lack of a tick and/or game loop with specific scheduling, (or lateUpdate or fixedUpdate), there's a lot of spasmodic jumping and stuttering going on, regardless of what I set the timer value to. I've tried 1/30th, 1/60th, 1/120th and 1/240th of a second. All have the same sorts of stuttering, at differing rates.
I've tried artificially smoothing through damping a joint to the physics body, using "look at" and "move to" type physics observation and forces and air resistance. Nothing creates a smooth follow camera.
EXTRA INFO:
My hero character can reverse very quickly, and jumps with a good deal of force, bounces significantly off objects and walls, and lands very hard. So the follow camera mechanism needs to deal with this type of highly dynamic hero. -
For many reasons it's desirable to have a camera that doesn't respond exactly as the character does.
Is there a way to achieve this kind of lerping in hyperPad:
Using maths, and/or physics objects partially or representatively associated with the hero character, I've created some interesting follow cameras. But due to the lack of a tick and/or game loop with specific scheduling, (or lateUpdate or fixedUpdate), there's a lot of spasmodic jumping and stuttering going on, regardless of what I set the timer value to. I've tried 1/30th, 1/60th, 1/120th and 1/240th of a second. All have the same sorts of stuttering, at differing rates.
I've tried artificially smoothing through damping a joint to the physics body, using "look at" and "move to" type physics observation and forces and air resistance. Nothing creates a smooth follow camera.
EXTRA INFO:
My hero character can reverse very quickly, and jumps with a good deal of force, bounces significantly off objects and walls, and lands very hard. So the follow camera mechanism needs to deal with this type of highly dynamic hero.@Deeeds weird, I just tested it and get position seems to be slightly broken for moving objects. Simply moving the screen to the player's position on a timer(0) doesn't look right, even though screen to object works fine on a timer(0). @administrators, bug? (Link to project with bug: http://bit.ly/2yflZgq).
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@Deeeds weird, I just tested it and get position seems to be slightly broken for moving objects. Simply moving the screen to the player's position on a timer(0) doesn't look right, even though screen to object works fine on a timer(0). @administrators, bug? (Link to project with bug: http://bit.ly/2yflZgq).
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@Jack8680 What does timer(0) do?
I'm assuming every frame, but what if I have my physics set to calculate every 120th or 240th of a second? Does timer(0) know anything about my physics settings?
@Deeeds Timer(0) is always 60 repeats per second. The only exception is lag obviously.
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@Deeeds Timer(0) is always 60 repeats per second. The only exception is lag obviously.
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@Deeeds It means I am not good at using iOS 11 keyboard. Edited to fix it lol.
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@Deeeds It means I am not good at using iOS 11 keyboard. Edited to fix it lol.
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@Jack8680 What does timer(0) do?
I'm assuming every frame, but what if I have my physics set to calculate every 120th or 240th of a second? Does timer(0) know anything about my physics settings?
@Deeeds yeah, it's 60 times per second. It doesn't adjust with your physics speed, but the maximum fps is 60 so you won't need any faster for screen moving.
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