Zelda Scrolling

I whipped together a little zelda scrolling example. I'm betting someone could bust this down into 2 events instead of 5... Heck, now that I think of it, I bet someone could even make this 1 event. While I'd like to see that out of curiousity, here it is, in all 5 events of granduer. 1 and 2 event would really push the bounds of 'human readable'.

I had to make this for a friend. so I figured I'd share.

http://kayin.pyoko.org/zeldascrolling.cap

That's pretty cool
Can't wait to see a zelda game made with construct

[lucid]

I'm digging the math.
an understanding of math always makes for an interesting scirra member

if you didn't know
there are DisplayWidth, and DisplayHeight expressions
to keep you from having to type in the numbers manually
and make it more flexible

they can be found in system

Do you really need timescale?

[lucid]

he's future proofing it
it if there were things moving around
the timescale would be needed I'd say
for zelda type scrolling

I don't really see the point. So what if objects are still moving while the screen is scrolling? It only takes a second or so to scroll. Besides that you'll need to add another event to deal with time scale freezing when you get to the bottom, or the right side.

I did the zelda style scrolling in one event hehe

I think we need a new system expression which is similar to clamp and similar to lerp. I need a name for it...but basically you give it a value, another value, and the amount to move the first value towards the second value...

so it's like this:

return source + clamp(destination - source, -dist, +dist)

hmm...

one disadvantage to my system is it doesn't pause the game

Did the original pause during scrolling?

yeah it does

[quote="David":ynuz5xxx]I did the zelda style scrolling in one event hehe

I think we need a new system expression which is similar to clamp and similar to lerp. I need a name for it...but basically you give it a value, another value, and the amount to move the first value towards the second value...

so it's like this:

return source + clamp(destination - source, -dist, +dist)[/quote:ynuz5xxx]

Clerp?.. no wait Clarp!