Disable respawn on leaving viewport

[Growler]

I have a portion of the game when the camera follows an entity (a taxi), not the main player, as it moves across the screen. The taxi is of type game.VehicleEntity which extends me.Entity.

me.game.viewport.follow(entity, me.game.viewport.AXIS.BOTH);

As the entity moves left, the camera follows it, which is great. But it reaches a point when the screen fades out and respawns the entity in the center of screen and breaks the game.

1) If the viewport is following the entity, how is the engine determining that it is out of bounds?

2) How can I disable respawning if the entity "leaves" whatever bounds 

A video of the issue: 

@obiot @Parasyte

[Growler]

@obiot @Parasyte I see, it's happening not because the Taxi is leaving the viewport, but because the mainPlayer entity standing there is left behind, which the viewport eventually leaves. So the question still stands: how can I disable the respawn/refresh if the player, or any entity, is out of bounds?

[obiot]

well honestly.... I don't know..... I really don't see what would be causing that in melonJS. 

would you mind setting a breakpoint on the loadLevel function 

https://github.com/melonjs/melonJS/blob/master/src/level/LevelDirector.js#L208

so that we can see the call tree ?

[obiot]

2 more things :

* first your game is really looking awesome so far

* in the latest 6.0 version of melonJS we added a camera damping features that really help in smoothing camera movements : 

// set the camera to follow this renderable on both axis, and enable damping
me.game.viewport.follow(this, me.game.viewport.AXIS.BOTH, 0.1);

 

[obiot]

Hi, did you progress or find out what is happening ?