Calulate Higest Distance

I have multipile player objects. I want to zoom my game out enough to they all will be seen.

I think that this is most easily be done by just calculating distance between objects and doing re-scaling with it. Higher number, less zoom. If you have better idea to do the same, I'll accept it as answer as well.

So, how to calculate higest distance between like +4 same objects?

Using the search I found these two topics:

this isn't answer good enough because they work if there is two objects, but number of objects I have can change a lot, even during the game.

I guess it will only work with four variables and then something like this:

LowestX

HighestX

LowestY

HighestY

every tick

Set lowestX to 99999999

Set HighestX to -9999999

Set lowestY to 99999999

Set HighestY to -9999999

for each player

if player.x < LowestX

set Lowest.X to player.x

etcetera

and then you can change the example from above with these Global Variable values

you could also do a:

for each sprite (ordered by sprite.x, ascending): set lowestx to sprite.x; stop loop

for each sprite (ordered by sprite.x, descending): set highestx to sprite.x; stop loop

etc.

set scrollx to (highestx+lowestx)/2

set scrolly to (highesty+lowesty)/2

and calculate the zoom according to your aspect ratio etc.

you could also do a:

for each sprite (ordered by sprite.x, ascending): set lowestx to sprite.x; stop loop

for each sprite (ordered by sprite.x, descending): set highestx to sprite.x; stop loop

etc.

set scrollx to (highestx+lowestx)/2

set scrolly to (highesty+lowesty)/2

and calculate the zoom according to your aspect ratio etc.

Much better solution.

I'm so not into loops, haha..