Stopping camera from following a target

[jjolmo]

Hi! I want to know if there's some exposed variable to stop the camera from following a node, at least temporarily.

I just found that should_follow = false will do the trick, at least in the play editor. But I haven't found out how to change it via code.
I'm using Godot c# so this is a bit more complex to interact but finally, it should work like this:

        phantomCam.Call("should_follow", false);

which is a similar way to do other functions like this:

        phantomCam.Call("set_follow_target", player);

Sadly, calling should_follow gives error "Invalid Call. Nonexistent function "should_follow" in base Godot.Node2D"

So. How can we prevent the camera to follow a target via code?

Thanks!

[jjolmo]

Oh. I'm sorry. I just saw that we need to use .Set, not .Call in c#

[jjolmo]

Reopening. Doesn't seem to do anything:

phantomCam.Set("should_follow", false);

Is there some way to just stop the camera from following a node?

[ramokz]

should_follow is only used internally within the system to check whether a camera has a follow_target or not. Modifying that property directly can lead to unexpected results, so wouldn't recommend messing with that one.

If you want the camera, or rather PCam, from doing any logic at all, including Look At behaviour (missed that you had specified it was a 2D scene, so this is comment is irrelevant), then a simple answer would be to disable its process with pcam.process_mode = Node.PROCESS_MODE_DISABLED. Conversely, to re-enable it, you can set the pcam.process_mode = Node.PROCESS_MODE_INHERIT.

[jjolmo]

Hmm.. I managed to solve the issue by creating two cameras and alter the priority like this:

  public void StopFollowing() {
        cameraStopped = true;
        phantomCamFixed.GlobalPosition = Game.server.room.GetNode<Node2D>("PhantomCamera2D").GlobalPosition;
        phantomCam.Call("set_priority", 0);
        phantomCamFixed.Call("set_priority", 2);
    }

but I this would not solve the question of just stopping a single camera