How to implement "look ahead" when the mode is set to "framed" ?

[amanatron]

I've been through the various discussions regarding the topic of "look ahead" being implemented sometime in the near future -- I really look forward to that and appreciate the work the community has been putting into the plugin!

My question is whether there's a workaround to solving the issue until that feature is developed? The very basic issue I'm facing is this: when I update the PhantomCamera2Ds offset with a method like this:

func update_cam_horizontal_offset(offset) -> void: player_camera.follow_offset = Vector2(offset * move_direction,0)

It works perfectly well in modes like simple when damping is implemented to give a smooth camera movement when the player switches direction. When I use framed, the camera no longer adjusts its offset when player changes direction because that's naturally how framed is intended to work, I suppose. What I ideally want here is that when the player changes direction,even when within the deadzone, the frame realigns itself to match the newer position. Is there a way to make this happen?

[ramokz]

What I ideally want here is that when the player changes direction,even when within the deadzone, the frame realigns itself to match the newer position.

Do you mean that the framed view changes its position so that it starts moving in the opposite direction without the player having to “touch” the dead zone edge?

[amanatron]

Yes precisely!

[ramokz]

This would involve a bit of experimentation and manual calculation, but my best suggestion would be to rely on a pseudo follow target.

So rather than using the actual target as a follow target you instead use an invisible Node2D as the pcam follow target. Where you set that pseudo-element's position to be based on the actual target's position, and then apply additional positional changes to that pseudo-element when the actual target's direction / velocity changes.

[amanatron]

@ramokz Makes sense! Thanks a ton.