How to make a screen scroll on the x and y axis (allegro)

LightningChicken12

So I'm working on a game, and I can't seem to figure out how to make the screen scroll on either the x or y axis. If anyone can help me out that would be great. Please be as detailed as possible. Thank you

slook26

How do you mean scroll, like a continuous scroll or scrolling like the user moves and a camera follows him around the map? If it's the second one here's how I did it:

I took the map drawing function and added it to take in my camera's X and Y coordinates:

`

void Map::OnDraw(SDL_Renderer* ren, int cameraX, int cameraY)
{

//omitted code for length reasons

for(int x = 0; x <= map_tiles_x; x++)
{
    for(int y = 0; y <= map_tiles_y; y++)
    {

//omitted good portion of code for length reasons

        SDL_Rect dest;
        dest.x = (x * TILE_SIZE) - cameraX;
        dest.y = (y * TILE_SIZE) - cameraY;
        dest.w = TILE_SIZE;
        dest.h = TILE_SIZE;

//omitted rest of code for length reasons

`

So when the character moves, the tiles move opposite the player. E.g. player moves down, the tiles get shifted up, player moves up, tiles get shifted down. That way it looks like they're scrolling around a map. You can even setup statements where if the camera is near the edge of the map to not move the map, but move the player.

Salamander

Yup, slook's answer a good one.

If you want to develop that even more, one can always add camera velocity and acceleration, so that it doesn't seem "glued" to the player but more like it was following him reluctantly, as if pulled with an elastic band...

But make sure you get this right first. Develop later. And good luck!