Background off-center after upgrading to 4.5

[emilija]

Godot Version

Godot 4.5

Question

I just upgraded from 4.4 to 4.5 and my game’s background got pushed down

I saw a comment in the docs that the camera limit behavior was changed, limits of 0 weren’t ignored now. I do use right / left limits and not top / bottom, but I’m having trouble figuring out if this is the case here. Nothing changes if I change the top/bottom limits

The other UI elements, for example the HUD, are fine, the only difference between it and the background is the follow_viewport_enabled.

I feel like I’m so close to figuring out what’s wrong here. I guess I could set the camera anchor mode to top left, but I really want to understand why the layout changed between versions. Any help will be much appreciated!

[connorjade]

It’s a very specific type of problem which is hard to repeat kindof. If 4.4 works for you stick with it. What I believe is that if you’re using tilemaps, they’ve changed it a bit. Now it’s tile layer(or something like that. I work in 3D games I have little knowledge about 2D😅).
On every new version just ask yourself are the new features actually be any use to you? I upgraded to 4.5 because I’m working in 3D and they introduced stencil support that I can leverage in my project.

[emilija]

If anyone has the same question - the problem was indeed the changed limits. Before the top limit was 0 and even though Godot used to say it was ignored - it seems that it really wasn’t. The camera’s anchor is positioned at the top in this photo from version 4.4, though it’s set to drag center:

Version 4.5 below. Every single attribute is the same, but the anchor is now (correctly) in the center.

I set the top limit back to zero and moved the whole camera half the viewport height down and everything is back to the way it was before the update!