Spiral Knights - Camera?

Camera?

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Sat, 09/30/2017 - 03:44

Flash-Flire

wow, i've just been everywhere for the past hour or so

*ahem*

Most people probably know that the way SK's camera is positioned, you get amazing visibility upwards, not so much downwards (which is probably why most of the boss levels are made in a way such that you move upwards).
However, this gets kind of weird when you're inevitably forced to move downwards and a devilite jumps out of nowhere and destroys you.
So, I offer two potential solutions:
1: Move the knight upwards away from the centre. This is less than ideal, since it now means that your knight isn't the centre of attention and mouse controls become weird, so this is really just because it's easier.
2: Top-down view. Wait what? Wouldn't this make everything just look like a helmet moving around? Well, yes. This is why it should be similar to what Link Between Worlds did: if you don't know, they made the world an actual top-down view, but tilted everything away from the camera so that Link isn't just a green triangle moving around. However, I can see this being harder to implement and it might also mean that view is restricted more if they don't move the camera far enough back.

Thoughts? Feedback?
I dunno, this is just an idea that popped into my head. Wait, isn't that just an idea?

Sat, 09/30/2017 - 14:24

Raven-Tail

BETTER IDEA

I honestly want to keep the camera the way it is. I don't want every fight being vanaduke.

However, what if we had a rotatable camera?
And if stage size isn't effected by resolution?

Sat, 09/30/2017 - 15:06

Flash-Flire

huh

So like map two buttons for moving the camera around?
I could see that being useful.

Mon, 10/02/2017 - 18:34

Fangel

ehh

Rotating camera means putting more textures on stuff. If we can't see something, it's often not textured right now, making it transparent. This would affect performance a bit, which is sadly its own problem anyways.

A top-down view is somewhat implemented already for the Roarmulus Twins, Vanaduke's mask stage, the Sparkcaster miniboss fights, and Blast Network. I suppose it may be neat if we could swap between that camera and the standard camera using the zoom button, but new players would likely get confused when they accidentally push that button (like they do when they accidentally open the big map).

Mon, 10/02/2017 - 20:33

Flash-Flire

hmm

I like the idea of a perspective shift button next to the big map. Presumably it'd swap between normal view and Vana view? Maybe you could bind a key to it as well.

Sun, 10/08/2017 - 00:07

Zero-Chill

I like Fangel's idea!

Mon, 04/23/2018 - 12:38

Flash-Flire

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