Move Camera to Follow Target's Dead Zone Floor

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Back with another question!

I'm wondering if there's a built-in way for the camera to reposition the viewport to the bottom of the follow target's dead zone height. For example in Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country, whenever the player character touches the ground of a new height, the camera will pan up to follow it. The camera doesn't pan vertically while the character is in the air.

Is there something in the documentation I may have missed that does this or may help me figure it out?

Thanks!

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I've tried adjusting the "_follow_target_position" but I suspect I'm not supposed to touch that property. Maybe what I'm looking for is a way to temporarily override the Phantom Camera? It'd be nice to adjust it's position manually while keeping the damping active. Maybe that's already present though?

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So I found a way to do this for anyone curious!

My Phantom Camera is set to Framed on the player object with a vertical dead zone located right under player. I also created a signal on my player object that emits when they touch the ground and is connected to a Camera Manager node. The Camera Manager fires off the following function when it receives the touched ground signal.

func player_on_ground() -> void:
    var screen_pos = owner.position - pc_active_camera.position
    if screen_pos.y < 0.0 && pc_active_camera.follow_mode == 5:
        #200.0 number is a little arbitrary as Dead Zone will prevent camera from panning up too much. Just want to make sure it hits the Dead Zone.
        pc_active_camera.position.y += 200.0

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