Hello Masters,
I am very new to corona, I just started learning the SDK for a week. So far I really like corona in developing games, very straight forward. However I have a problem in creating a platformer game like this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frogmind.badland
My question is how can i make the camera follows a player with a specific stage bounds like for example on this phaser page: http://phaser.io/examples/v2/input/virtual-gamecontroller
Thanks in advance!
Perspective is a library that a lot of people use to manage “camera” functionality. However, remember that there is no “Corona camera” that exists in a global sense, so there isn’t a Corona-centric method to handle this. This is good, because once you feel more comfortable with Corona, you can develop your own logic for this that suits your game/app type.
Additionally, if you’re trying to create a platformer, you might want to check out the Dusk library. Again, this is a third-party module with no support from Corona proper, but it’s used widely and has excellent support for being open-source.
https://code.coronalabs.com/code/perspective-virtual-camera-system
Welcome to Corona!!! Platformer games are pretty easy to do in the grand scale of things. You’re camera question is a very common question and some quick search using either the forum search or google.com for “corona camera” will bring up a bunch of forum threads that discuss this. You will have to weed through a few hits talking about the picture taking camera as opposed to the move the screen around the player camera, but this is such a popular question the move the player type comes up high in the search results.
Rob
Just to elaborate on what alex@panc has said about there being no “camera” strictly speaking. The simplest way I can explain how to make it appear that the camera is moving in one direction, is to actually move the background/platforms/etc in the opposite direction.
So if you want the camera to move to the right, then you move the game world to the left.
This community is awesome… I am thankful that I am on the right direction now since I have been banging my head on the api docs and can’t find answers but here you are guys feeding up all the answers for me. Alex@panc, Alan QuizTix, and of course moderator Rob thank you for the answers. I believe the perspective library is a good tool to experiment Thanks a lot guys 
For someone starting out, I’m surprised no one suggested the Composer GUI from Corona:
https://docs.coronalabs.com/composer/
Or Level Helper:
I’ve actually not used either one, but sometimes I feel like it could have saved me some trouble!
Dave
This is a late repost of the same answer I gave in your other thread ( I’d go delete that one ).
There is some overlap with answers above.
REPOST BEGINS:
There are a few camera libraries out there so you should look at several, but they all work on the same principle:
Here is my library with several camera styles and example usages:
http://github.com/roaminggamer/RGCamera
Again, there are others so I’d do a Google search for “corona sdk camera” and see what pops up. (Caleb Place has one too:http://gist.github.com/GymbylCoding/8675733) “External link”)
Here are the results of a search on GitHub:
Perspective is a library that a lot of people use to manage “camera” functionality. However, remember that there is no “Corona camera” that exists in a global sense, so there isn’t a Corona-centric method to handle this. This is good, because once you feel more comfortable with Corona, you can develop your own logic for this that suits your game/app type.
Additionally, if you’re trying to create a platformer, you might want to check out the Dusk library. Again, this is a third-party module with no support from Corona proper, but it’s used widely and has excellent support for being open-source.
https://code.coronalabs.com/code/perspective-virtual-camera-system
Welcome to Corona!!! Platformer games are pretty easy to do in the grand scale of things. You’re camera question is a very common question and some quick search using either the forum search or google.com for “corona camera” will bring up a bunch of forum threads that discuss this. You will have to weed through a few hits talking about the picture taking camera as opposed to the move the screen around the player camera, but this is such a popular question the move the player type comes up high in the search results.
Rob
Just to elaborate on what alex@panc has said about there being no “camera” strictly speaking. The simplest way I can explain how to make it appear that the camera is moving in one direction, is to actually move the background/platforms/etc in the opposite direction.
So if you want the camera to move to the right, then you move the game world to the left.
This community is awesome… I am thankful that I am on the right direction now since I have been banging my head on the api docs and can’t find answers but here you are guys feeding up all the answers for me. Alex@panc, Alan QuizTix, and of course moderator Rob thank you for the answers. I believe the perspective library is a good tool to experiment Thanks a lot guys
For someone starting out, I’m surprised no one suggested the Composer GUI from Corona:
https://docs.coronalabs.com/composer/
Or Level Helper:
I’ve actually not used either one, but sometimes I feel like it could have saved me some trouble!
Dave
This is a late repost of the same answer I gave in your other thread ( I’d go delete that one ).
There is some overlap with answers above.
REPOST BEGINS:
There are a few camera libraries out there so you should look at several, but they all work on the same principle:
Here is my library with several camera styles and example usages:
http://github.com/roaminggamer/RGCamera
Again, there are others so I’d do a Google search for “corona sdk camera” and see what pops up. (Caleb Place has one too:http://gist.github.com/GymbylCoding/8675733) “External link”)
Here are the results of a search on GitHub: