The camera

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Jan 12 2008, 5:52 am
Are the any plans on allowing the camera to be offset by pixels so that if someone does pixel movement it doesn't look god-awful?
Jan 12 2008, 8:20 am
Since BYOND is built on tile-based movement, I doubt it.
Jan 12 2008, 9:19 am
Popisfizzy wrote:
Are the any plans on allowing the camera to be offset by pixels so that if someone does pixel movement it doesn't look god-awful?

There is no camera. There is only a client.

Client pixel offsets are on the list, just not the immediate-future list.

Lummox JR
Jan 12 2008, 9:22 am
In response to Lummox JR
Er, yea, the client. As long as they're there, I suppose.
Jan 12 2008, 9:29 am
In response to Kaiochao2536
Objects/screen objects support pixel offsets, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to allow offsets for the client eye.
Jan 13 2008, 4:56 am
In response to Lummox JR
Lummox JR wrote:
There is no camera. There is only a client.

Which is a big problem on BYOND. In any game making utility you'd have control over some camera object, on BYOND we're very limited. I think it'd be better if we separated the camera from the client, something I thought should've been done with <code>client.eye</code> a long time ago.
Jan 13 2008, 3:38 pm
In response to Crashed
Crashed wrote:
Lummox JR wrote:
There is no camera. There is only a client.

Which is a big problem on BYOND. In any game making utility you'd have control over some camera object, on BYOND we're very limited. I think it'd be better if we separated the camera from the client, something I thought should've been done with <code>client.eye</code> a long time ago.

I thought it already was?
Jan 13 2008, 3:39 pm
You could try offsetting the interface element instead. :)
Jan 13 2008, 3:58 pm
In response to Foomer
Yeah... just because its not specifically called the camera doesn't mean client.eye isn't in effect the camera xD