I am making a tycoon game and need to use the mouse to drag the camera around, like in an interface if that makes sense. Is this possible and if so how can I do it?

404-FileNotFound wrote:

I am making a tycoon game and need to use the mouse to drag the camera around, like in an interface if that makes sense. Is this possible and if so how can I do it?

im sorry to express that the scratch team denied this feature, they say people could abuse the curser lock by putting it in a forever loop, making it impossible to escape the page by normal means. this was for obvious reasons a good excuse to put this feature in the dark. so if you wish to simulate a screen lock, you must parallax your game. this will not give you what you desire entirely, but its the best you can do, unfortunately

Arctevious wrote:

404-FileNotFound wrote:

I am making a tycoon game and need to use the mouse to drag the camera around, like in an interface if that makes sense. Is this possible and if so how can I do it?

im sorry to express that the scratch team denied this feature, they say people could abuse the curser lock by putting it in a forever loop, making it impossible to escape the page by normal means. this was for obvious reasons a good excuse to put this feature in the dark. so if you wish to simulate a screen lock, you must parallax your game. this will not give you what you desire entirely, but its the best you can do, unfortunately

not a cursor lock, more like a drag and drop camera system for a top down game where you place objects, similar to how minimaps work in some games.

404-FileNotFound wrote:

Arctevious wrote:

404-FileNotFound wrote:

I am making a tycoon game and need to use the mouse to drag the camera around, like in an interface if that makes sense. Is this possible and if so how can I do it?

im sorry to express that the scratch team denied this feature, they say people could abuse the curser lock by putting it in a forever loop, making it impossible to escape the page by normal means. this was for obvious reasons a good excuse to put this feature in the dark. so if you wish to simulate a screen lock, you must parallax your game. this will not give you what you desire entirely, but its the best you can do, unfortunately

not a cursor lock, more like a drag and drop camera system for a top down game where you place objects, similar to how minimaps work in some games.

drag and drop…? again your going to need to explain in depth what your trying to acheive. once i understand i will provide the best solution i can.

Arctevious wrote:

404-FileNotFound wrote:

Arctevious wrote:

404-FileNotFound wrote:

I am making a tycoon game and need to use the mouse to drag the camera around, like in an interface if that makes sense. Is this possible and if so how can I do it?

im sorry to express that the scratch team denied this feature, they say people could abuse the curser lock by putting it in a forever loop, making it impossible to escape the page by normal means. this was for obvious reasons a good excuse to put this feature in the dark. so if you wish to simulate a screen lock, you must parallax your game. this will not give you what you desire entirely, but its the best you can do, unfortunately

not a cursor lock, more like a drag and drop camera system for a top down game where you place objects, similar to how minimaps work in some games.

drag and drop…? again your going to need to explain in depth what your trying to acheive. once i understand i will provide the best solution i can.

so I'm making a museum game, and I will need an edit feature to create objects. When the mouse is used, the map (place where the objects are) will move with the cursor, like panning. You would drag the UI around to pan and change where the map is. If you use a minimap in a game, you use the mouse to drag around the map with your cursor. Alternatively, if you have a piece of paper, and put one finger on it, when you move ur finger the rest of the paper will move.

It seems like it's just redesigning a scrolling script with mouse controls.

Here's my script:


It looks like a lot of variables, but it's necessary. The camera variables affect the coordinates the camera is taken from. The start variables track where the first click is so that we can move the screen relative to that position. The beginning variables simply say where the sprite should appear first. So currently, the sprite will appear at (50,0).

Considering you're making a map, that's likely unnecessary. Just start it at (0,0).

Here's a demo (it didn't record my mouse but you get the idea):

PhiPhenomenon wrote:

It seems like it's just redesigning a scrolling script with mouse controls.

Here's my script:


It looks like a lot of variables, but it's necessary. The camera variables affect the coordinates the camera is taken from. The start variables track where the first click is so that we can move the screen relative to that position. The beginning variables simply say where the sprite should appear first. So currently, the sprite will appear at (50,0).

Considering you're making a map, that's likely unnecessary. Just start it at (0,0).

Here's a demo (it didn't record my mouse but you get the idea):

Alr, I understand. thanks! that solves my problem, but now i need it to control a rendered grid :\ anyway, I'll figure it out from here, thanks so much!

404-FileNotFound wrote:

Alr, I understand. thanks! that solves my problem, but now i need it to control a rendered grid :\ anyway, I'll figure it out from here, thanks so much!

It's the same concept except you should shift your rendering by the camera values. If it's pen, you should just add cameraX and cameraY to your go to blocks.