Need to tether a camera to the player and control it with the Right Analog Stick

I made some changes, have a look:

dropbox.com/s/sazmpsmexk4mmn5/RightStickCam.c3p

EDIT - Actually, this version may be better:

dropbox.com/s/ocyz4hzyiqdt3zf/RightStickCam2.c3p

dop2000 that is great! (only looked at the second one)

so you are getting the angle and the extreme of the analog stick...dividing by the MaxDist and making that your clamp?

one issue I had my original as well is if the analog stick is extended in place and simultaneously the player travels in the opposite direction...the result is that the player goes off screen. On the flip side, when the player moves towards the direction of the analog stick, the player proceeds the camera.

to clamp the camera while the player is moving I've tried a few things. But I think it may have more to do with the lerp maybe?

I added this to the Set Position:

clamp(lerp(Self.X, (Player.X+d*cos(a)) , 2*dt), Self.X-100, Self.X+100)
clamp(lerp(Self.y, (Player.y+d*sin(a)) , 2*dt), Self.Y-100,Self.Y+100)

I don't quite understand what are you trying to do with those clamp() expressions, but they won't work like that.

If you don't want the camera to go further than 100 px from the player, set MaxDist to 100. Also, try to increase camera speed in event 3 - change to "10*dt" for example.

dop2000 I tried setting MaxDist, it doesn't work for when the player is moving. It works for setting the max when the player is NOT moving. This is why I was saying I think it is the lerp(). When the player moves, the camera lerp is trying to catch up to where the player is, and that is adding to the distance away it is from the player.

I'm talking about setting an overall clamp... i.e. never letting the camera go past 300 pixels to the right.

EDIT I think I may have it. I set the MaxDist to 200 and the lerp to 5*dt and that seems to have done the trick. I see now why my clamp() wouldn't work.. :( that was dumb of me! it's early morning here!!

You can try this clamp:

clamp(lerp(Self.X, (Player.X+d*cos(a)) , 5*dt), Player.X-MaxDist, Player.X+MaxDist)

clamp(lerp(Self.y, (Player.y+d*sin(a)) , 5*dt), Player.Y-MaxDist, Player.Y+MaxDist)