Overview of the camera shake code

In this video, we go through the provided camera shake code.

The camera shake consists of offsetting the view from the current camera position. Godot’s Camera2D node has an offset property to do that.

Our camera shake relies on a noise generator. You learned about noise when working on the random rocks series. The calculation that offset each rock was the foundation for noise.

Godot has a powerful built-in noise generator called Open Simplex Noise.

It’s an algorithm that can generate smooth series of random numbers. It is perfect for camera shake as we want to create a motion that is erratic yet continuous.

Godot’s noise generator allows us to get that motion with little code.

For more information, I invite you to open the ShakingCamera.gd script in the project, where you will find detailed comments.

We will look at the provided bullet and spell code in the next video.