Lower Camera2Ds viewport?

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Rukiri

Love how simple Camera2D is to use, but I don't like that it's your projects width/height. Is there a way to give it a custom viewport?

My resolution in game is 1920x1080 (easy to scale down) but would like to lower the cameras view to half if possible only because I'm working on a 2D game and I don't want the camera to see outside my scene (which is basically just a TileD map imported into Godot).

Thanks for the help :smile:

PaulMurray

There's a zoom value, increase that and you'll see less of the scene, though it will make everything appear bigger.

Avencherus

I don't think you're wanting to manipulate the viewport, that isn't going to achieve what sounds like scrolling. The way that's done is by putting a camera through another viewport, and having that viewport attached to a viewport sprite, that will render it's texture as what is seen in that secondary viewport. However, doing that is going to leave you with empty border regions, since the rest of the canvas will still be displayed.

I'm guessing you're talking about clamping the camera to the edges of the map as you scroll through. The Camera2D provides clamping functionality through the Limit property. It gives you a Left, Right, Top, and Bottom edge. Set those to the margins of your level as it is on the canvas, and that should keep the camera inside the world.