Make your Godot 2D Camera Follow your Player

Track your 2D avatar — the right way!

Want your camera to smoothly follow the player? Godot makes this super easy with the Camera2D node! By default, it sticks rigidly to the target, but with a few tweaks, you can add smoothing, limits, or even fancy lag effects… and yes: it’s as simple as dropping in a camera in your scene and changing some props to get the right feel :)

👉 This tutorial uses assets by Kenney

Ok, so: how do we do that?

Well, first, add a Camera2D node to your scene as a child of the node you want to follow — for example your player:

And then… that’s about it, actually! ’Cause, from that point on, the camera will automatically follow the object in-game, and you don’t need to do anything more 😅

However, this camera movement will be pretty sharp and unnatural, and the camera might even go outside the level bounds. So here are a few extra tricks to go further and improve your “camera follow” mechanic a bit.

• First, if you want to “block” your camera to the edges of the level, use the Limit section in the…