Script to Zoom in on Player

Rayd12smitty · Apr 7, 2013

I have another quick question. I want to call a script that will make the game zoom in on the player, and then another one that will zoom back out. I want it to be a gradual change like when you use

Code:

pbToneChangeAll(0,20)

where the 0 is the tone it fades to and 20 is the frames it takes to do it. Is there something like this to zoom in on the player in the over world?

Maruno · Apr 7, 2013

You mean like the battle transition which zooms in on the screen? Class ZoomInTransition is where to get started with that, although what you need depends a huge amount on what you want to do with this zooming.

Rayd12smitty · Apr 7, 2013

Maruno said:
You mean like the battle transition which zooms in on the screen? Class ZoomInTransition is where to get started with that, although what you need depends a huge amount on what you want to do with this zooming.

Yes thats exactly what I want. I want to make it so the player is zoomed in on like that when I select something in the menu. I am using a custom menu so I don't need to know how to edit that.

Code:

if Input.trigger?(Input::C)
          Audio.se_play("Audio/SE/Select")
          pbWait(2)
          10.times do
            if $Trainer.pokedex==true
              @sprites["Pokedex"].y-=16
            end
            if $Trainer.party.length>=1
              @sprites["Pokemon"].y-=16
            end
            if $Trainer.pokegear==true
              @sprites["Pokegear"].y-=16
            end
            @sprites["Bag"].y-=16
            @sprites["Trainer Card"].y+=25.5
            @sprites["Save"].y+=25.5
            @sprites["Options"].y+=25.5
            @sprites["Back"].y+=25.5
            pbWait(1)
          end
          ####ZOOM IN ON PLAYER
          Audio.se_play("Audio/SE/navopen")
          pbPokeDev
          ####ZOOM OUT ON PLAYER
          break
        end

This is the basic idea I had. The commented out parts would be zooming in and then when you close the thing in the menu it zooms back out to normal. I will take just about anything I can get. It doesn't have to show it zoom back out if thats not possible.

zingzags · Apr 7, 2013

Zooming in on player is basically enlarging the map, and the player. The effect you are looking for is to make a loop which will gradually zoom in until it reaches the desired enlargement point.

Rayd12smitty · Apr 7, 2013

I understand that but I don't know what to put in the loop. I don't know the script XD

Luka S.J. · Apr 8, 2013

zingzags said:
Zooming in on player is basically enlarging the map, and the player. The effect you are looking for is to make a loop which will gradually zoom in until it reaches the desired enlargement point.

That is not a good way to do it. First of all it's much more complicated. Second, if you are actually enlarging the map, you'll be enlarging it tile by tile, making them out of alignment at points which aren't perfectly divisible by the scale factor. I tried this method; it's complicated, and doesn't give you a smooth animation in return.

Rayd12smitty said:
I understand that but I don't know what to put in the loop. I don't know the script XD

Maruno gave you everything you need. If you look at how the class ZoomInTransition actually works, you'll see that it uses the Graphics.snap_to_bitmap function, which basically creates a temporary screenshot of your screen. Create a sprite with that, and you have yourself a super easy method of creating transitions of all kinds.

Rayd12smitty · Apr 8, 2013

Thanks Luka...again haha. I'll look at it again.

zingzags · Apr 9, 2013

Luka S.J. said:
That is not a good way to do it. First of all it's much more complicated. Second, if you are actually enlarging the map, you'll be enlarging it tile by tile, making them out of alignment at points which aren't perfectly divisible by the scale factor. I tried this method; it's complicated, and doesn't give you a smooth animation in return.

Maruno gave you everything you need. If you look at how the class ZoomInTransition actually works, you'll see that it uses the Graphics.snap_to_bitmap function, which basically creates a temporary screenshot of your screen. Create a sprite with that, and you have yourself a super easy method of creating transitions of all kinds.

I was talking in theory, never really tried it myself.

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