Camera Battle Transitions Research

This project was developed by Luis González , a second year student of the University degree Video Game Design and Development in year 2022-2023.

About this project

The goal of this research is to produce a functional camera battle transition system in C++.

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Software used to develop this project

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Research

1. Introduction to the topic / problem to solve

When we develop a game, generally we have a world to explore with some enemies. When we are about to fight any enemy to start a battle, we have 2 different scenes:

The problem to solve is how should we combine these 2 scenes?

2. Market study showing other games approaches (use animated gifs!)

But, what did already created games about this? Do they just… swap the 2 scenes? Let’s find out.

We can see that the main result of many games is to add cool transition, I couldn’t find any camera battle transition in any game that is just a simply cut, from scene 1 to scene 2 in just a frame

3. Selected approach, describe and present it in detail

So, the solution is to switch scenes in the middle of a cool transition, this can be a cut, fade in/fade out, some bars going from left to right, a big black square moving from right to left, etc.

4. Possible improvements of the presented solution

This is a complicated project, and even having tried I only could develop some simple transitions. So a possible improvement could be that, instead of black figures on top of the screen going in and out, another good option would be to modify the last render to the screen itself as an independent and modificable image. Here an example of what I’m talking about:

5. Examples: VS Project in the repository

You can download the code in this link.

6. Exercises: VS Project with TODOs to complete (Handout + Solution)

You can download the handout and the solution in this link.

The TODOs:

Developer

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License

This project is licensed under an unmodified MIT license, which is an OSI-certified license that allows static linking with closed source software. Check LICENSE for further details.