Animate the viewport itself

[DigitalArena (Dan)]

Sorry for another in theory question. I'm an ex-Flash user learning what Hype can and cannot do.

I want to be able to keep an object central to the viewport as the object itself moves around the 'world' top down, using JavaScript. Is it possible to animate the viewport, using JavaScript, to stay centred on the object being tracked, or is the solution to animate the world (perhaps in a group) around the object being tracked, leaving the viewpoint alone?

[jonathan (Jonathan Deutsch)]

This isn't a built-in feature of Hype (though a good feature request!), but there are some folks who have made a "camera" object that probably does what you want:

Hype Dynamic Camera

[Hype Dynamic Camera] Create transformations based on a square defining the view port for animations and dynamic framing. This is based on the old but really great dCam source by @Luckyde. Release on GitHub: Example file: HypeDynamicCamera.hype.zip Using a single camera with a stage The following setup (as seen in the example file): [CleanShot 2021-12-23 at 19.37.24] gets transformed into this motion when previewed: [CleanShot 2021-12-23 at 19.42.53] Using multiple cameras [Cle…

Based on the work from this older one:

dCam - Dynamic Hype Camera using Hype 3.5 features v1

Hey guys, Months ago I created an alpha for a camera object i posted on the forums which would be able to simulate an after effects camera using hype. Well with Hype’s new functionality I got it! [image] Download Link (18.1 KB) This symbol can be copy pasted into a document and as soon as it does the scene will resize itself to it’s dimensions. When you animate it the stage will animate and it uses request animation frame so that coupled with the new engine makes it very smooth to work…

You'd just need to move this camera object along with your animated object.

[DigitalArena (Dan)]

Wonderful. That looks like it will be just the thing! Thank you.