Position Smoothing causing lag and stutter when Player stops

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Godot Version

4.3

Question

Hello, this is probably a well known issue, so I’ll explain my case as detailed as possible:

Issue:
When my Player stops moving, the camera “smoothly” stops after (due to Position Smoothing enabled) but it stutters/tilts right at the last frames, “moving” the sprites by some pixels - besides that, I see no issue during movement. Here’s the link to a video.

I want the Camera to smoothly stops right after the Player stops, without any stuttering or sprites tilting.

Settings:

  • Position Smoothing: Enabled, 5px/s (if disabled of course there’s no issue);
  • Drag: Horizontal Enabled (tried disabling as well as enabling Vertical, nothing changes);
  • Project Settings > Stretch > Mode: Disabled (tried both Viewport and Canvas_items, nothing changes);
  • Project Settings > Stretch > Aspect: Keep
  • Project Settings > Stretch > Scale Mode: Fractional (tried Integer, nothing changes)

Semi-solution:
the only thing that fixes that issue is enabling Snap 2D Transforms to Pixel in Project Settings > Rendering > 2D, BUT, then the animations look too mechanical and “broken” due to pixel perfection, a clunky effect that I don’t want for my game.

I think the most effective solution might be to write a custom script for the Camera2D node, but being a newbie, I’m all ears for any suggestion with/without adding a script that might fix it.

Thank you for any help!

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Hi, you didn’t post a link to your video.

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Oh sorry! Just fixed it. Thanks for letting me know!

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Maybe you can turn off position smoothing and change the camera offset yourself to have more control over it?

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Thanks for the reply. You mean with a script? I could place it offset when the player moves but then snap on the player when they stop. But I don’t know how to make it stop smoothly :confused: