Recommended way to set up game camera?

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Hi all,

I was wondering what the recommended way to set up a camera is.

I have always used an x and y offset variable and drawn everything based off of that. So all the map objects would move as the xOffset and yOffset changes. But I recently heard that you could just use g.translate(x, y) to move the actual origin of the drawing area, which could be used for a game camera.

So, which is the standard way to set up a camera?

Thank you all very much

#2

Either way works, but translate() is much less work. You can also give it more complicated transforms like rotation with setTransform().

#3

There is no right or standard way to setup a “camera”. A camera doesn’t exist in game dev, you are simply moving objects to make it look like the world is scrolling, so whatever you do to achieve this effect is fine!

#4

Thank you all very much! I think I am going to try and use the translate() from now on because it is definitely a lot less work.