Determining if actor is on camera view

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Hi everyone,

I am brand new to this community and have just started dabbling with Panda3D. I am working on a simple 3D scrolling shoot’em up game. Essentially, the player is allowed to move around the screen within the camera’s current view. The player should never be able to move outside of the camera’s view and the camera scrolls through the level forcing the player to move with it. To see the inspiration for this game (if my description isn’t clear), see youtube.com/watch?v=t5eURQyEEQM

I have been able to get the camera movement down, and even force the character to move forward if the camera is about to pass them. I still need to make sure that the player is in sight of the camera, and was wondering if there was a method already in place to achieve this or if I will need to program it myself. I did some digging through the manual and didn’t see anything, so I figured I’d try here.

Thanks!
Chris

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There is some inView() or something like that, search forums for collision tutorials from astelix, i think that he used such method in more advanced tutorials.