Make a Platformer in GameMaker! Part 3 (Smooth Camera) 

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Hey man I LOVE this series so much! I can't take you enough for doing this tutorial this is by far the best one i've seen. Also I know i'm late but i've got a question: my camera doesn't want to follow my player even though go at a low Y axis. (up) so my player will just get out of the camera's range and will continue to go up without the camera following. Got any ideas of what causes that?

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IMPORTANT!!!: If your fullscreen thing doesn't work, make sure three things happen: 1. You went into the options, then windows, then graphics, and Allow fullscreen switching is on 2. You deleted the camera after the buffering room which already has a camera (must be a persistent object!) 3. You typed: if keyboard_check_pressed(vk_f11) { window_set_fullscreen(!window_get_fullscreen()); } (You can use any vk key, I just preffer f11)

By far the best tutorial series I've come across. Thank you!

Its crazy how you even added a camera to this tutorial! Im so glad thought, Thanks a lot.

The camTrailSpd is still same speed even if I lower it

and the master of GML who helped me on my coding journey is back again wahoo!!!

Just joined your Patreon! Thank you so much for this amazing series!

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I did everything and this works just fine ! I just have this strange graphic bugs where the pixels of some platforms strangely zigzags when I'm on fullscreen and moving. I don't know if someone had the same problem or have the solution. I'll eventually try to deal with it later

Love the series!

I cant believe how long I spent looking for one typing error! it finally works though. on to the next

Great video. You've got a clear and easy to follow teaching style. While I have some version of what you've shown in the camera, the smoothing techniques and how to start the camera where the player starts was really useful! If you're taking suggestions, I'd love to see q more indepth camera tutorial for things like zooming/switching targets/panning over a scene/changing resolution etc. Either way, great job!

The fullscreen isnt working for me and i dont know Why i followed the instructions

Hey, as long as it work with pixel art :)

This is great! I'm loving this series. It's funny but the part about choosing a full screen button got me thinking. I ALWAYS use f4 as my full screen toggle button - I started using GameMaker 4.3 and a few weeks later 5.0 was released. Back then, all the function keys were hard coded and couldn't be changed. For every game project f5 was save game, f6 was load game and f4 was full screen. I can't remember what the other function keys did, but I was so used to pressing f4 to toggle full screen that when GameMaker Studio came out and you finally had the option to make it whatever you wanted, I just kept it out of habit.

wouldnt having the buffer room on top cause problems later on if we add the main menu and stuff? or does the exit code prevent that?

Hey! Love this series so far! Just had a question that I can't seem to find an answer for, and I can't tell if it's just me missing something or not. But when I pressed the button to go fullscreen, it just says Resizing Swap Chain in the Output, and that's it. It doesn't toggle in or out of fullscreen. Do you or anyone else in the comments know what is going on?

Thank you! You gave me the solution to all my problems.

Hey is it possible you could extend the Top-Down RPG series with how to make a Party system?

Full screen did not work for me. I followed everything and when I hit f8 it says resizing swap chain… Then nothing happens.

Not to be that guy but, did you teach how to make the characters run through lopes in the first 2 videos? because i watched those over and over and dont remember that.