Camera
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A common "rule" is that the camera should usually allow the player to see 2 thirds of the screen in the direction they're travelling in any direction. You can set an offset for each room, but there are also useful camera triggers. The offset equivalence is 6 tiles per X offset and 4 tiles per Y offset.
These settings will move the camera 6 tiles right (so the player will be more near the left) and 4 tiles up.
It pans the camera vertically and horizontally. It will override both values.
Progressively pans the camera in a direction (from old to new offset) so it doesn't have a cut when you enter the trigger.
It is useful for areas with a lot of speed (like double block boosts or chained ultras). It is in Maddie's Helping Hand.
Prevents a certain area to be seen (in one or both axis). Make sure that they're not in a transition.
It locks the camera in a node with more or less intensity (with a value of 1 it will be static, with <1 it will follow the player, with >1 it will quickly become static), useful for (semi)enclosed spaces where you're always inside the trigger.
Flag versions of most triggers also exist in Maddie's Helping Hand, useful for backtrack or complex/non-linear routings. There is also a Multiflag camera target trigger in Viv Helper for even more complex things.
You can also zoom in the camera easily with Extended Variants or Frost Helper (Eased Camera Zoom Trigger). Note that it is not currently possible to zoom out the camera more than the default zoom.
TODO - Found in AvBday Helper.
TODO - Found in Furry Helper.
TODO - Found in Honly Helper.
TODO - Found in Honly Helper.
These triggers have several options. They can optionally prevent the player from going off-camera (with invisible barriers and killboxes), and can block the camera from going in certain direction(s) while you are inside. It also accepts flags to start having effect. Found in Maddie's Helping Hand.
TODO - Found in Saladim Helper.
TODO - Found in Sardine7.
The presence of some entities can lock the camera under certain conditions, so if you're having issues check if you placed any of those.
- Badeline Bosses lock the camera horizontally, and don't allow you to see to the right of them. So if you enter a room with a Badeline Boss from the right, you will probably have issues.
- Badeline Boosts have a Camera Lock option that makes the camera unable to pan away from the entity.
There's a few rare cases where the camera can make certain specific mechanics to behave different. For example, the hitbox of the spinners unload when they are not visible. A popular example is the final room of Ultra Difficult (from Spring Collab):
Madeline just clipped through these spinners harmlessly because they were not inside the camera on the previous frame.