Camera control

franciscorenef · February 8, 2026, 1:22pm

Hi, I’m new to Defold and I’m trying to create a video game where the camera zooms in and out at certain times and in a specific position relative to the character or a particular area. My problem is that I don’t understand how to do it. I’ve been looking at the britzl/defold-orthographic repository, but I haven’t been able to figure it out yet. I would appreciate any help or ideas. Thanks, everyone.

Pawel · February 8, 2026, 8:25pm

If you’re using Defold Orthographic then there is zoom property for this:

How are you trying to set the zoom? Maybe there are some errors in console? What is the actual problem? Is the doc not clear how to use it? There is also an example inside:

github.com/britzl/defold-orthographic

example/zoom/zoom.script

master

local camera = require "orthographic.camera"

local CAMERA_ID = hash("/camera")

function init(self)
	msg.post(".", "acquire_input_focus")
end

function on_input(self, action_id, action)

	local action_pos = vmath.vector3(action.x, action.y, 0)
	local action_world_pos = camera.screen_to_world(CAMERA_ID, action_pos)
	local camera_pos = go.get_position(CAMERA_ID)
	local zoom = camera.get_zoom(CAMERA_ID)

	go.set_position(action_world_pos, "zoom")

	if not action_id then
		local delta = vmath.vector3(action.dx, action.dy, 0)
		delta = delta / zoom

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