I’m new to using Unity and C#. I am working on a project for uni and need some help please. I’m trying to make a side scrolling shooter game, like R-type. I am trying to make the camera work in the same way as R-Type.
The camera in R-type is always moving at a steady pace to the right and the player is bounded by the camera itself so they cannot move off the screen.
I can make the camera scroll at a steady pace but not sure how to/if I have to use mathf.clamp to set up the boundaries for my camera. If I do need to use mathf.clamp would this script be attached to just the camera or also the player gameobject?
I haven’t played R type but one usual idea is that player position isn’t dependent on camera’s instead player moves at regular pace and camera’s x Vector2 position is always equal to player’s. To experiment with it create a sphere with constant force component and create a script with a public var named target/player and in Update() say transform.position.x = target/player.position.x; and attach it the camera, thus camera will scroll along with the sphere. If you want smoothness use lerp (to keep it simple). Hope this works…
However I am now trying to get the camera to scroll. I have read your reply several times and I am struggling to understand it fully, would you be able to shed some more light on the subject. Thanks
Sorry for replying late, my character model had some skinning problem (had to do it manually mostly). I said player movements aren’t dependent on camera but camera movements are on player’s. Use this very simple camera scroll script to make camera scroll along player’s x axis. The smooth variable can be used to delay camera’s movement along (make it smoother) lesser the value more the delay :
