Camera View

Camera View adds a second, picture-in-picture window onto your game world. The object's box becomes the window. It follows one World object at its own zoom: a slingshot's landing spot, a boss on the far side of the level, the player while the main camera looks elsewhere.

Settings

Setting	What it does
follow	The World object the window centres on.
Zoom	How big the world looks in the window. 1 is the same size as the main view at zoom 1. Higher zooms in.
show	always, or while aiming: only while a slingshot on this screen is being pulled.
round	Makes the window a circle instead of the object's box.
keep inside	Optional. An object (usually your ground or level bounds) the window never shows past. If the object is smaller than the window, the window centres on it. (no limit) turns it off.
edge padding	Shows when keep inside is set. Pixels trimmed off each side of that area. Negative lets the window go that far past the edge.

Where to put it

Camera View needs three things:

• A level screen with a Camera.
• An object in UI space on that screen (not in the World, and not on a separate HUD screen). Its box is the window.
• A World object to follow.

The window draws first, then the object's own art and children on top, so you can add a frame or border image to the same object.

A landing preview for a slingshot

1. On your slingshot's Control, make an empty World object and pick it as landing marker.
2. Make a small UI object in a corner and add Camera View.
3. Set follow to the landing marker, Zoom to 2, show to while aiming, and turn on round.

Now, while the player pulls, a little round window shows where the shot will land.

Good to know

• The window shows the world only. It never takes taps.
• You can have more than one Camera View on a screen.
• Games only. Works in Preview and on both Wear OS and Apple Watch.