"Camera" controls that treat the viewing window as a camera view?

dusty22

So what if the Scratch player viewing window was treated like a “Camera”?

And you could have blocks on the stage/backdrop panel like:
- ‘zoom in (x%)’
- ‘zoom out (x%)’
- ‘camera shake (time in seconds)’

This could be cool for certain screen related effects in games, or for movie/skit making. Currently to simulate anything like this it involves a lot of workarounds and awkward background sprite/backdrop editing.

Last edited by dusty22 (June 12, 2013 17:51:29)

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iTweak0r

also,

camera change x by
camera change y by
camera go to x: y:
camera x
camera y

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dusty22

iTweak0r wrote:
also,

camera change x by
camera change y by
camera go to x: y:
camera x
camera y

Sure, good idea.

^Perhaps those blocks would only work once the camera/stage view is zoomed in because at no zoom you can already see everything on stage (unless maybe sprites and stuff will eventually be able to move offscreen… but even then IDK if it'd really be good).

Last edited by dusty22 (June 14, 2013 01:53:58)

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Digital_Gaming

joshuaho wrote:
dusty22 wrote:
So what if the Scratch player viewing window was treated like a “Camera”?

And you could have blocks on the stage/backdrop panel like:
- 'zoom in '
- 'zoom out '
- 'camera shake '

This could be cool for certain screen related effects in games, or for movie/skit making. Currently to simulate anything like this it involves a lot of workarounds and awkward background sprite/backdrop editing.
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Lythium

Digital_Gaming wrote:
joshuaho wrote:
dusty22 wrote:
So what if the Scratch player viewing window was treated like a “Camera”?

And you could have blocks on the stage/backdrop panel like:
- 'zoom in '
- 'zoom out '
- 'camera shake '

This could be cool for certain screen related effects in games, or for movie/skit making. Currently to simulate anything like this it involves a lot of workarounds and awkward background sprite/backdrop editing.
+1
+2

Why?

Digital_Gaming

Lythium wrote:
Digital_Gaming wrote:
joshuaho wrote:
dusty22 wrote:
So what if the Scratch player viewing window was treated like a “Camera”?

And you could have blocks on the stage/backdrop panel like:
- 'zoom in '
- 'zoom out '
- 'camera shake '

This could be cool for certain screen related effects in games, or for movie/skit making. Currently to simulate anything like this it involves a lot of workarounds and awkward background sprite/backdrop editing.
+1
+2
Why?

Because it would making visual effects easier and increase the potential of Scratch.

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ateesdalejr

No camera shake. That's totally unecessary if you've got a few other blocks that change the x and y.

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TheScratchHobbiest

There is a work around

Move x
Move y
Move z (size block)
Shake (glide block)

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Mathmagician8191

This might work better if you had a custom stage size. Then the stage would have motion blocks to control the camera.

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-Osiris-

No support. This seems like something only useful for animations and games, which aren't the main purpose of Scratch. Also, these seem like 3D features, which are too specific/complex for Scratch.

Charles12310

-Osiris- wrote:
No support. This seems like something only useful for animations and games, which aren't the main purpose of Scratch. Also, these seem like 3D features, which are too specific/complex for Scratch.

1. Many projects are animations/games.
2. I'm 100% sure this would be for 2D.

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-Osiris- wrote:
No support. This seems like something only useful for animations and games, which aren't the main purpose of Scratch. -snip-

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ShinigamiBlacky

No Support, you can make it yourself easily

Last edited by ShinigamiBlacky (July 28, 2018 13:44:09)

non-swimmer248

ShinigamiBlacky wrote:
No Support, you can make it yourself easily

How????? There's only one easy way i know of to do anything resembling this, the

set size to (400) %

method, which A) requires a decent knowledge of scratch to figure out yourself, B) looks pretty ugly, and C) is unwieldy and annoying to use.

etienne07

I FREAKIN LOVE THIS IDEA. Scrolling in scratch is extremely hard, especially with enemies and other things. I TOTALLY support this and really want this to be added.

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