Can't set initial position of camera with PhantomCamera2D?

[tsmuse]

When I set the follow target the position of the PhantomCamera2d and the associated Camera2D nodes is auto set for me by the script and cannot be changes. When I have "tween on load" enabled, it appears to start that camera move from global 0,0 no matter what I do. Am I missing something? Is there a way to set the starting point of that movement? I want the camera to move in, but not from the top left corner of the scene.

Thanks :)

[ramokz]

No, you're not missing something.
It happens because when a node is instantiated into a scene, it spawns at the coordinate 0,0 before teleporting to its designated place.

This is only happening in a tiny window, but the PCamHost is grabbing that 0,0 of the PCam coordinate, nonetheless, which it shouldn't.

It's just a minor tweak to PCamHost to make it wait until the node is fully instantiated into the scene with its correct coordinate before grabbing it. Can try it out by adding the following line below on line 1070 inside phantom_camera_host.gd:

if not pcam.tween_on_load:
  pcam.set_tween_skip(self, true)
if not pcam.is_node_ready(): await pcam.ready # Add this line
_find_pcam_with_highest_priority()

Note, will be adding this change to the next minor release.

In practice, it means that the active PCam of a scene, as set from the editor, will not trigger Tween on Load as nothing will, or can for that matter, tween to it as it's the first node in the tween flow.