The Camera of Zap and Andy (Patreon)

Tech post today! For those who are interested in trying out AGS, or are just curious about how stuff in Zap and Andy works, I wanna talk about its camera today.

Internally we call it Lakitu, like the cloud guy from Mario 64 with the camera.

This guy right here.

The camera is actually a character itself, meaning it can do everything Zap and Andy do, it just doesn't have any graphics...most of the time.

AGS doesn't actually have a built in camera system. So what I do is have Lakitu become the player character so the screen focuses on him, and then have him walk around everywhere. In theory I could use him for first person exploration scenes, but that hasn't come up yet.

Sometimes either an extra body is needed in scenes where the camera doesn't move, or some corner cases happen. In those Lakitu ends up being a lot of different characters!

Tomorrow I'm gonna post a video of me testing the ice cream minigame with all its graphics. See you guys then! :D