horseshoe7/ccgamecameranode

An attempt at a way to pan around your game world, which also allows zooming. For Cocos2D and SpriteBuilder 3.3

CCGameCameraNode

An attempt at a way to pan around your game world, which also allows zooming. For Cocos2D and SpriteBuilder 3.3

Installation Instructions

• Download and install SpriteBuilder from the Mac App Store.
• Open the Project in SpriteBuilder and build / export it.
• Open it in Xcode

What is this?

Sometimes you may have a game world that needs to do more than a CCFollowNode action can offer. Why? Because often you would like have zooming on your map. This CCGameCameraNode attempts to be a sort of "view manager" for your game world.

What Does the Project Currently Do?

It loads a test scene and allows you to pan and pinch the screen to adjust the zoom. There are two buttons to show off the camera animation feature of the camera. T-R for top right, B-L for bottom left. Have a look at these action handlers for an example of how to best use it.

Features

• Adjust camera position and zoom. Convenience method allows you to zoom to a specific rectangle on your board
• Use CCActions on the camera.

Notes

If you are using a CCPhysicsNode in your scene, make sure it is a child of the node you provide to the camera, otherwise asserts will fire when you try to zoom with the camera.

Future Work

• Allow for rotation

Known Issues

• I'm still familiarizing myself with Cocos2D and contentSizeType and so on. This worked fine on iPhone, but I had troubles with world boundaries for some reason on iPad. If someone knows the answer given this project, please let me know!!

What this isn't for

Endless scrollers. Not really in scope. Look somewhere else if that's what you're working on.

Legal

Do whatever you want with it, just keep your lawyers away from me. :D I think that's called MIT. I'm too busy being creative.