How can properly set a camera's location at a zoomed layer?

Let's say I made a camera object that moves with arrow keys. Depending on some values I will create a box that consists of tiles at the top left corner of the screen, and depending on how small it is, I zoom the layer more. I tried to first have the camera object loaded off screen and after some calculations have its position set, then change the layer scale but the game doesnt zoom in where I want it to zoom. How can I fix this?

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Hi.

It's not clear what you want to happen with the camera.

There's an error in the code you provided. I've highlighted it in orange in the screenshot.

You need to place these screen extension requests in the middle. otherwise, they'll be executed 60 times per second after the first tap.

If you want to scale from the edge of the layout, the camera view will stop at the edge. To prevent this from happening, enable this option.

It's great that you provided an example; usually, that's all it takes to understand how to help.

Now how can I make the hud lock where it is? Bceause after I turned on that option the game indeed zoomed where I wanted it to zoom but the hud is at the wrong spot.

Do I use a Pin behavior? Note that if I want to make the grid bigger I will add the option to zoom in and out with the mouse, and the hud should still remain at its intended location like in the example images above

Smallest Grid I want should look like this (width and height to 3)

The layer is scaled to 3

Largest Grid I want should look like this (width to 50 and height to 44)

Scale is 1

I made these inside debug mode

I've never used these before (Viewport and lerp), where can I read more about them? Could you also explain what you do with lerp? Thank you.

In Construct 3, everything is designed very intuitively; even if you don’t know a specific term, you can select any object and see what options it offers. I’ve marked them in green.

“Lerp” is simply interpolation; if I were to just jump the scale every 0.3 points, it would look choppy, like a frieze, but this function makes it smooth.

Basically, this does the same thing but more smoothly.

Try commenting out one of them and you’ll see the difference.