Question

All of the methods that I’ve seen for getting a camera to follow a player in Cocos2d have been either convoluted or not usable. Is there a simpler way to just make a camera that is centered on the player for a TDS?

Answer 1

The easiest way I know is to use CCFollow. Put it in your init method after you declare your sprite.

[self runAction:[CCFollow actionWithTarget:aSprite]];

or set a world boundary if you have a boundary set.

[self runAction:[CCFollow actionWithTarget:aSprite worldBoundary:CGRectMake(0, 0, world_width, world_height)]];