About dynamic camera and how not to show grey screen

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Godot Version

4.6

Question

Basically problem is when u move, camera shows grey undeveloped areas.

So initially I decided I would use a 640 x 360 viewport and then just post a series of obstacles and a sign and after I step near the sign, we transit the scene.

But I found it a little weird, cause it was a very small area, and yeah it felt very flat and hard to design the whole level in little blocks or scenes, so I came up with an idea that I would use a nice wallpaper with an area2D. Then everytime a user stepped into a new background, I would recalibrate the maximum directional limits of the camera.

But there are a number of problems with this

  1. It feels abit choppy and no different from a scene transition except that you can go back
  2. I have bigger levels planned, and on some of them, you want to be able to say, see what’s coming up when u are jumping, and not just move the camera to the next scene’s boundaries.

Can anyone advise on a high level, what u need to do?

I don’t need you to provide code, I am an application dev and know how to code if you point me in the right direction :grinning_face:

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Hello,
You can use ParallaxBackground for the background

Also, lowering the viewport size isn’t ideal. You should change size of the camera instead.

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Oh my gawd! U gave me hard level homework!

Might be overkill for my use case but still useful so I don’t have to source and stitch backgrounds from gemini.

It’s about scrolling the scene and dividing it into parts.

Thankfully I had a last working savepoint on git :laughing:

I kinda fixed camera issues by setting it to viewport limits XD

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Did you nuked your project while fixing it xD

You should explain it more clearly, it’s quite hard to get what’s the problem.

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Yeah, cause I used to reset camera limits to viewport size, so after I used the parallax one, it was like a merry go round carousel or such a lamp with my coconut tree moving position XD.

I think I am gonna have to do it janky and lose some of my progress.