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Question by Chobi77 · Sep 30, 2012 at 05:38 AM · c#camerafollowborder

Camera Border Follow

Hi all,

I am working on a orthographic camera and am trying to make it like the original Super Mario Brothers camera.

So far i have done the following:

Stopped the camera from moving up when Mario jumps, set the borders for the x axis so that the camera will stop scrolling when it reaches the left or right edge of the map and the camera also follows Mario around on the x axis left and right.

My problem is i don't want the camera to scroll to the left, what i need is for the edge border that i have set for the left hand side of the map to move forward when Mario moves to the right and then when Mario moves back to the left i need the camera to stop moving.

Here is my code thus far.

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 
 public class CameraScript : MonoBehaviour {
 
     //Object to look at and follow.
     public Transform target;
     
     //Border for width.
     public float borderX = 1.6F;
     
     //Border for height.
     public float borderY = 0.11F;
     
     //Stops camera from moving past the border to the left.
     public float minimum = 0.0F;
     
     //Stops camera from moving past the border to the right.
     public float maximum = 0.0F;
     
     //Time for camera dampen.
     float  smoothTime = 0.2F;
     
     //Mario's transform.
     private Transform marioTransform ;
     
     private Vector2 velocity;
     
     public bool useSmoothing = false;
     
     void Start()
     {
         marioTransform = transform;
     }
        
     void Update()
     {
        Vector2 newPos2D = Vector2.zero;
        
        if (useSmoothing)
        {
          newPos2D.x = Mathf.SmoothDamp(marioTransform.position.x, target.position.x + borderX, ref velocity.x, smoothTime);
        }
                
        Vector3 newPos = new Vector3(newPos2D.x, newPos2D.y, transform.position.z);
            
        transform.position = Vector3.Slerp(transform.position, newPos, Time.time);
         
        //Set the minimum and maximum vales for the camera movement on the x axis.
        transform.position = new Vector3(Mathf.Clamp(transform.position.x, minimum, maximum), transform.position.y, transform.position.z);
     }
     
     public void LateUpdate()
     {
      //Stop camera from moving in the y axis when mario jumps.
      Camera.main.transform.position = new Vector3(marioTransform.position.x, borderY, transform.position.z);
     }           
     
 }

The minimum value is for the border to the left and the maximum value is for the border to the right.

I need the minimum value to increment upwards when Mario moves to the right and when Mario moves to the left i need the incrementation to stop and the camera to remain where it is until Mario moves to the right again.

Thanks for reading and any help would be appreciated. :)

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Answer by dabears · Oct 24, 2014 at 07:42 PM

Here is my camera script which does similar operations:

 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Text;
 using UnityEngine;
 
 namespace namespaace{
     class EndlessLevelCameraController : MonoBehaviour {
         //public float speed = 2f;
         public float dampTime = 0.15f;
         private Vector3 velocity = Vector3.zero;
         public Transform rightEndMarker = null;
         public Transform leftEndMarker = null;
         public Transform topEndMarker = null;
         public Transform bottomEndMarker = null;
         public bool useFixedUpdate = false;
         public bool pinCamera = false;
 
         private float leftWallXWorld = 0;
         private float leftWallXScreen = 0;
         private float rightWallXWorld = 0;
         private float rightWallXScreen = 0;
         private float topWallYWorld = 0;
         private float topWallYScreen = 0;
         private float bottomWallYWorld = 0;
         private float bottomWallYScreen = 0;
 
         void Start() {
 
         }
         void updateWalls() {
 
             leftWallXWorld = leftEndMarker.position.x;
             leftWallXScreen = camera.WorldToScreenPoint(leftEndMarker.position).x;
 
             rightWallXWorld = rightEndMarker.position.x - Screen.width;
             rightWallXScreen = camera.WorldToScreenPoint(rightEndMarker.position).x - Screen.width;
 
             topWallYWorld = topEndMarker.position.y - Screen.height;
             topWallYScreen = camera.WorldToScreenPoint(topEndMarker.position).y - Screen.height;
 
             bottomWallYWorld = bottomEndMarker.position.y;
             bottomWallYScreen = camera.WorldToScreenPoint(bottomEndMarker.position).y;
         }
 
 
         void LateUpdate() {
             if (!useFixedUpdate)
                 updateCameraPosition();
         }
 
 
         void FixedUpdate() {
             if (useFixedUpdate)
                 updateCameraPosition();
         }
         // Update is called once per frame
         void updateCameraPosition() {
             updateWalls();
             if (PreferencesManager.CURRENT_PLAYER.transform) {
 
                 if (!pinCamera) {
                     Vector3 delta = PreferencesManager.CURRENT_PLAYER.transform.position - camera.ViewportToWorldPoint(new Vector3(0.5f, 0.5f, 0)); //(new Vector3(0.5, 0.5, point.z));
                     Vector3 destination = (transform.position + delta);
                     //Vector3 destinationWorld = camera.ScreenToWorldPoint(destination);
                     if (destination.x > rightWallXScreen) {
                         destination = new Vector3(rightWallXScreen, destination.y, 0);
                     }
                     if (destination.x < leftWallXScreen) {
                         destination = new Vector3(leftWallXScreen, destination.y, 0);
                     }
                     if (destination.y > topWallYScreen) {
                         destination = new Vector3(destination.x, topWallYScreen, 0);
                     }
                     if (destination.y < bottomWallYScreen) {
                         destination = new Vector3(destination.x, bottomWallYScreen, 0);
                     }
                     // here to always set the Z
                     destination = new Vector3(destination.x, destination.y, transform.position.z);
 
                     transform.position = Vector3.SmoothDamp(transform.position, destination, ref velocity, dampTime);
                 }
 
                 //Logger.logTest("step1");
                 float playerX = PreferencesManager.CURRENT_PLAYER.transform.position.x;
                 float playerY = PreferencesManager.CURRENT_PLAYER.transform.position.y;
                 if ((Math.Abs(playerX - leftEndMarker.position.x) < .5 && !PreferencesManager.getPlayerController().MOVING_RIGHT) ||
                     (Math.Abs(playerX - rightEndMarker.position.x) < .5 && PreferencesManager.getPlayerController().MOVING_RIGHT) ||
                     (Math.Abs(playerY - topEndMarker.position.y) < .6 && PreferencesManager.getPlayerController().MOVING_UP)) {
                     // || (Math.Abs(playerY - bottomEndMarker.position.x) < .5 && !PreferencesManager.getPlayerController().MOVING_UP)) {
 
                     PreferencesManager.getPlayerController().MOVE_ALLOWED = false;
                     //Logger.logTest("false");
                 } else {
                     PreferencesManager.getPlayerController().MOVE_ALLOWED = true;
                     //Logger.logTest("true");
                 }
 
             }
         }
     }
 }
 
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