Control Camera seems broken

gyroscopegyroscope I am here.Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 6,598
edited October 2020 in Working with GS (Mac)

Hi, I've started fresh from the beginning again an old top down game I started years ago for iPad. I put Control Camera behaviour into the main player character, made the scene dimensions 4 times the size, and tested it. The player goes off the screen – the camera isn't working for me...

Also I went to resize the camera in the scene editor - when I held down one of the handles, instead of letting me adjust the width, it jumped to a smaller size. This happened on the other handles too until GS crashed.

I'm using GS 1.25.98 on Mac OS Catalina.

Any help appreciated, thanks.

Edit: it let me change the camera size by the handles this time but Control Camera behaviour still not working....

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  • adriangomezadriangomez Member, PRO Posts: 440

    How are you moving the character? Arrow keys or some other way? I have a game that I move the character with the arrow keys and the camera still follows. I may not be understanding the issue.

  • gyroscopegyroscope I am here.Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 6,598
    edited October 2020

    @adriangomez

    Hi Adrian, the player is being moved by joystick.

    P.S I've just done a test moving an actor with control camera to the right with an attribute set to true - still no luck...

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  • bob loblawbob loblaw Member, PRO Posts: 793

    is the actor with the camera on a locked/non-scrollable layer? or is there maybe another actor with a camera behaviour/rule (possibly constraining it to something) that’s conflicting your game’s logic?

  • gyroscopegyroscope I am here.Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 6,598
    edited October 2020

    @bob loblaw

    Thanks, Bob, I had forgotten to turn scrollable on! (I've only got back into GS after many years break - that's my excuse! ;-) )

    One thing I have noticed is I can only make folders scrollable, not individual actors in a folder...strange...plus GS is still crashing when I try to alter the camera area...

    Still, the control camera is up and running so thanks again :-)

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  • jamie_cjamie_c ImagineLabs.rocks Member, PRO Posts: 5,772

    My camera area jumps around as well, I hadn't noticed this bug before but it is something that used to work for sure. As a work around you can adjust the Width and Height values under the Camera » Tracking Area Attributes panel.

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  • adriangomezadriangomez Member, PRO Posts: 440

    Glad it all worked out.

  • gyroscopegyroscope I am here.Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 6,598
    edited October 2020
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    @jamie_c

    Thanks, Jamie, I'll try that (I had forgotten that too!).

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  • gyroscopegyroscope I am here.Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 6,598
    edited October 2020

    Just tried adjusting the tracking area via attributes, it worked first time, second time to adjust again, GS Creator crashed. Something's not right...

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  • bob loblawbob loblaw Member, PRO Posts: 793

    try using .99

    seems to be a bit more stable. there is a memory issue with gs right now as well, so if you’re continually hitting save, you may be clogging up your ram.

  • gyroscopegyroscope I am here.Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 6,598

    @bob loblaw

    Good advice, Bob, thanks, I'll try that version. :-)

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  • gyroscopegyroscope I am here.Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 6,598

    @bob loblaw

    Hi again, Bob, where are you downloading .99 from, can I ask?

    When I choose Check for Updates in the Creator, it tells me I'm up-to date. (It also tells me "GameSalad 1.25.97 is currently the newest version available. You are currently running version 1.25.98" - strange, I already must have a beta version...)

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  • adriangomezadriangomez Member, PRO Posts: 440

    I also have 98.

  • ArmellineArmelline Member, PRO Posts: 5,385
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    GameSalad Creator 1.25.98 for macOS Release

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    .99 can be grabbed from that thread.

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  • bob loblawbob loblaw Member, PRO Posts: 793
    edited October 2020

    .99 link in armelline’s post above ^

    whatever version you run i think still recognizes .97 as the current version.

  • gyroscopegyroscope I am here.Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 6,598

    @adriangomez @Armelline @bob loblaw

    Thanks guys and I'll check out the thread to download .99 :-)

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