Let's improve scrolling together! [4.5.9] (dohandlecamera updates/fixes)

[SciNEStist]

what you are looking at to change this is the "edge reaction" scripts. I haven't rally tackled that yet myself.

My planned solution is to force the player to move along with the screen, and check for solid tiles on the other side of the player. if they are stuck between a solid tile and the edge, then instant kill.

another simpler solution would be to hurt the player then warp them to the center of the screen when they touch the edge

 

[tbizzle]

I was thinking using the edge reaction "move in opposite direction" then add slopes so there wont be any hang ups with the edge smushing the player against a solid tile. That will take a while for me to test out though since I've altered my scripts so much. Here are the slopes:

4.5.9 Metroidvania and Platformer Slopes

Alright, I'm here to share how I made slopes work in 4.5.9. This method makes slopes that you can run up and down, jump off of, jump through from below, and they fully interact with Objects other than the player such as enemies and NPCs. In my current project (Rick Starfield, which I am still...

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[ArogueModder]

Thank you for this. I was having trouble with the simple scrolling scripts attached to inputs. This is working great.

 

[Jonny]

@SciNEStist Thank you for your work on this. I just need to shoehorn in recentering now.

 

[Jonny]

I cant seem to get left pad to be greater than right pad and I've no idea why. The left pad can be smaller than right pad but if I make left greater seems to just go by whatever the right pad is.

 

[SciNEStist]

Not much progress with getting pad size to change. But I have updated the script again.

now it also updates the music choice each screen, and i added screenflags01 (it was only grabbing the first 8 flags before, now its getting all of them

I also noticed this topic was pinned, so I added some links to other common scrolling issue fixes

lemme know if there are issues!

 

[9Panzer]

This is amazing! Such an amazing job SciNESTtist, Thank you for contributing this! Scrolling has always been a hard downfall in NESmaker and this cleans up ALOT of issues.

 

[SciNEStist]

@tbizzle I was able to work out a way to "push" the player along with the camera scrolling, and even "squish" the player if they get stuck behind a solid and forced off the screen edge.

edge reaction scripts werent working for me, so here is a tutorial:

https://www.nesmakers.com/index.php...-along-with-your-camera-scrolling-4-5-9.8055/

 

[DocNES]

@tbizzle I was able to work out a way to "push" the player along with the camera scrolling, and even "squish" the player if they get stuck behind a solid and forced off the screen edge.

edge reaction scripts werent working for me, so here is a tutorial:

https://www.nesmakers.com/index.php...-along-with-your-camera-scrolling-4-5-9.8055/

YES! I was hoping someone would be able to tackle this issue. I was really wanting to have a scrolling level, and now this makes it possible.

 

[SciNEStist]

YES! I was hoping someone would be able to tackle this issue. I was really wanting to have a scrolln level, and now this makes it possible.

I felt the same way. and sometimes if you want something done, you gotta do it yourself. I know I'm not the best coder around here, but sharing what others might find useful is important. Imagine how much further along NES development would be if people shared their tools/code with eachother since the 80s

 

[Eddie1thompson]

hey, i used this tutorial for the scrolling platformer module and now whenever my character dies, the screen glitches out and i cant move or see my player. how would i fix this?

 

[SciNEStist]

I would need more info on whats happening (maybe a video?) , but one suggestion I have would be to make sure that EVERY screen has the warp out screen settings on it (not just the 1st screen in the level)

 

[Eddie1thompson]

I would need more info on whats happening (maybe a video?) , but one suggestion I have would be to make sure that EVERY screen has the warp out screen settings on it (not just the 1st screen in the leve

I’ll try the warp out thing first and if I still can’t get it working I’ll send a video of the error here! Thank you for your reply! (I’m making this game as a project for my senior year of high school)

 

[Eddie1thompson]

I would need more info on whats happening (maybe a video?) , but one suggestion I have would be to make sure that EVERY screen has the warp out screen settings on it (not just the 1st screen in the level)

Well, that seems to have fixed it! Thank you so much

 

[SciNEStist]

Great! The benefit of letting people place different warp out settings each screen is self-evident, but the drawback is you have to set it on every....single.... screen, which is tedious.

 

[Eddie1thompson]

Great! The benefit of letting people place different warp out settings each screen is self-evident, but the drawback is you have to set it on every....single.... screen, which is tedious.

Ah! it keeps happening, but much less frequently, but i got a video, maybe this can explain?

 

[SciNEStist]

have you set the warp IN position on the screen you are warping to?

 

[Eddie1thompson]

have you set the warp IN position on the screen you are warping to?

yes i have, it goes to (3,12)

 

[Eddie1thompson]

have you set the warp IN position on the screen you are warping to?

it looks like when the error is happening, the camera is going to the screen AFTER the checkpoint, which would explain why i cant see my player, but I still dont know a fix for it

 

[dale_coop]

I 'd suspect the checkpoint tile script.