SOLVED- 'Camera inverting' - Defining player position on room change

[Lewis]

I have a scene where the player can cross the road and the "camera" switches position to show a different angle on the area. This is set up as two separate rooms, each of which has a wide, scrolling background and the player can exit the room at any point of the lower edge, and should then appear at the appropriate location in the new room.



I'm trying to figure out a neater way of defining the player's position and direction when switching between these rooms.

Right now I split the 'camera switch' area into multiple hotspots and hand-script where the player should walk to before the room transition, and how they should be oriented in the new room.

But it's not ideal: the player doesn't always walk to exactly where they've clicked, and there's an awful lot of hand-scripted stuff there that feels as though it could be made redundant.

I can't just check the player's x position and replicate it in the new room because the 'camera' is facing in a different direction, so the positioning and scaling are out.

Suspect I'm missing an easy trick here but over to the board!

[Khris]

I can't just check the player's x position and replicate it in the new room because the 'camera' is facing in a different direction, so the positioning and scaling are out.

If the camera view changes by 180 degrees, the new position is basically Room.Width - player.x
If the camera change is more complicated, the math becomes more complicated, too.

[Lewis]

Bingo. Khris to the rescue as always. And, as always, a much simpler solution than I was convoluting it to be!