How do I roll to another screen like Zelda for nes

Hey folks, I wanted to do some screen transitions like the first zelda game for the NES. I want the individual screens to be static, but then scroll when moving to a new screen - shown in the gif below.

Any suggestions about the best way to pull that off?

I've come up with the idea of when hitting a trigger placed at the edge of the screen:

1. make the player's 8-direction behavior disabled, then

2. moving the character's x position and the background's x position until they end up on the other side of the screen. Then

3. enabling the 8-direction behavior again.

This seems very messy to me so I can't tell if I'm on the right track.

The method you mention in your second post is likely how anyone would advise you to go about it(if everything is on one layout). If done right, it should prove to be a relatively clean solution.

Instead of moving the background, try making an invisible sprite that takes up the whole camera space, and do a "Every Tick > Scroll To Sprite".

Then, on the trigger hit move the invisible camera sprite in the direction you want.

I believe the zone demo will help you with what you want:

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/747/zo ... a-movement

Wow - thank you so much! This is great!

You all ROCK!!!!