[Solved] How to move a View

[Cr0n]

Sup!
I dont quite get my error here:

mWorldView.move(-100,400);
Does work perfectly fine - however:

When I first center some sprites relative to the view...

mPlayer.setPosition(mWorldView.getCenter());


They wont move if I move the View. I am confident that I only center them once.

Help appreciated
Cr0n

[Laurent]

They wont move if I move the View

Do you mean that they move on screen? Or that they stay at the same pixel position?

[Cr0n]

no I really mean that they stay at the same pixel position

[Laurent]

That's the expected behavior. The center of the view is always mapped to the center of the window (unless you play with the viewport, which I assume you don't). So if the player follows the center of the view, it always remains at the center of the window as well.

When you move the view, what should be moving is everything that doesn't move relatively to it (like a static background). If you want to see the player move, don't make him follow the view, that's simple.

[Cr0n]

But as I said I dont let it follow the view??
I only set the player in the middle of the view once

mPlayer.setPosition(mWorldView.getCenter());


They wont move if I move the View. I am confident that I only center them once.

[Cr0n]

Ok now this is weird:

I have instanced another sf::View.
Thats my code structure with it:


sf::View view1;
sf::View view2;

while(window.isOpen(){
window.setView(view1);
...
...
window.clear();
window.draw(...);
window.display();
if(mode){
      window.setView(view2);
      ...

   }
}
elseif(otherMode){
   ...
   view1.move(x,y);
      window.clear();
      window.draw(....);
      window.display();
 

Makes the moving work!
But removing the window.setView(view2) part prevents it from working again.

Furthermore, I can set the bounds from view2 to whatever I like - the object from if(mode) are all at the same place - its like totally broken - im apparently not drawing to view2, but it still does something (that i didnt want but that somehow solved the other problem)

Cr0n

[Laurent]

There's probably a mistake in your code logic. Please post a complete and minimal example that reproduces the problem, otherwise it will be hard to help you.

[Cr0n]

Uh ok it was a timing issue.
Case closed sorry for spam