Scrolling not showing my ground

Hi all,

New to all this and hoping for some help.

Creating a metroidvania style platformer/exploration game and doing some early tests. The problem I'm running into is this:

I have created a controlled sprite, with behaviours of Platform and ScrollTo. When I had a small level I could always see the bottom of the screen while running a playtest. I've now made my level taller and when I run a playtest the "camera" is slightly higher, I can't see the floor and at the initial position it is cropping my sprite.

Why is this happening and how do I fix it?

Also, I apparently can't post URLs so I don't know how to add an image to this post to explain my point.

Likewise, HELP!

Is your screen big enough for the taller level?

What way have you set the scaling in project properties?

Posting an image would definitely help - use image tags ([.img] and [./img] tags (without the .))

Generally for platformers I've found that it's best to use a separate invisible sprite as the camera scroll-to object anyway. Otherwise you have that nasty thing of a camera following the character when they jump - an almost universally undesirable effect.

Set the object to follow the character's X but not Y (maybe with some lerp to smooth out its movements, too), and only update its Y when necessary (like when moving to a new vertical screen or jumping onto a major platform) with markers around the level.