How do i restart in checkpoint after death without resetting the camera level limits when changing the camera limit before dying after checkpoint?

[NitrollegusVG]

hi, i've been wanting to do this for a long time now, when I change camera limits, you know when you get to the boss, and then you change boundaries, and when you die, the camera boundaries stay the same as the checkpoints you've been at last, so how do i do that in godot 4. because i've seen games like spark the electric jester 1 and freedom planet 1 & 2 do this.

[QuartzTS]

Well, the easiest thing to do would be to put a boundary setter at the position of the checkpoint..

[DimensionWarped]

I think right now, no matter what when you restart at a checkpoint from death, the checkpoint boundaries are going to be be reset to the level default. Quartz is right to say that the easiest way to do this would be to have the checkpoint simply have a boundary updater near it, but if it were me I'd add a value called something like 'checkpoint_boundary' as a rect2d that can optionally be set on a checkpoint that would add this to the save data associated with a level.

I'm actually going to recommend going with Quartz's suggestion though because that way when I add something like this in you won't have to deal with merge conflicts when you try to upgrade to the newer version of the engine :)

[QuartzTS]

Tbh I actually thought of smth similar but I went with the one I've already suggested since it's probably less complicated or smth, lol..

[freddysae0]

On death the scene is reloaded, and the new player resets its limits to the level defaults in _ready() (limitLeft = Global.hardBorderLeft, etc.), so whatever a BoundrySetter set before the checkpoint is lost. The fix is to remember the limits when the checkpoint is touched and put them back on respawn. Three small edits:

Scripts/Global/Global.gd (next to the other checkpoint vars):

var checkPointLimits = null

Scripts/Objects/Checkpoint.gd, in _on_Checkpoint_body_entered, right after activate():

			Global.checkPointLimits = [body.limitLeft, body.limitRight, body.limitTop, body.limitBottom]

Scripts/Player/Player.gd, in _ready(), between the limitBottom = Global.hardBorderBottom line and snap_camera_to_limits():

	if Global.currentCheckPoint != -1 and Global.checkPointLimits != null:
		limitLeft = Global.checkPointLimits[0]
		limitRight = Global.checkPointLimits[1]
		limitTop = Global.checkPointLimits[2]
		limitBottom = Global.checkPointLimits[3]

I tested it on current main in Godot 4.7 with BaseZone: set the player's limits to [8000, 9800, 100, 800], touched checkpoint 2, then reloaded the scene the way a death does. The player respawned at the checkpoint with the same limits on both the player and the camera. Without the change it comes back with the full-level limits ([0, 10400, 0, 2048]).

It saves the limits at the moment you touch the checkpoint, so put the checkpoint after the boundary setter (or touch it again after the limits change).