Setting up a 2D Game Camera in XNA

I actually took some of the code from a few websites, but this shit was incredibly hard to find, so i put together what worked for me for you guys :3c


The Camera2D class
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using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics;

    public class Camera2d
    {
        protected float _zoom; // Camera Zoom
        public Matrix _transform; // Matrix Transform
        public Vector2 _pos; // Camera Position
        protected float _rotation; // Camera Rotation

        public Camera2d()
        {
            _zoom = 1.0f;
            _rotation = 0.0f;
            _pos = Vector2.Zero;
        }

        // Sets and gets zoom
        public float Zoom
        {
            get { return _zoom; }
            set { _zoom = value; if (_zoom < 0.1f) _zoom = 0.1f; } // Negative zoom will flip image
        }

        public float Rotation
        {
            get { return _rotation; }
            set { _rotation = value; }
        }

        // Auxiliary function to move the camera
        public void Move(Vector2 amount)
        {
            _pos += amount;
        }
        // Get set position
        public Vector2 Pos
        {
            get { return _pos; }
            set { _pos = value; }
        }

        public Matrix get_transformation(GraphicsDevice graphicsDevice)
        {
            _transform =       // Thanks to o KB o for this solution
              Matrix.CreateTranslation(new Vector3(-_pos.X, -_pos.Y, 0)) *
                                         Matrix.CreateRotationZ(Rotation) *
                                         Matrix.CreateScale(new Vector3(Zoom, Zoom, 0)) *
                                         Matrix.CreateTranslation(new Vector3(/*Application Window Width*/ * 0.5f, /*Application Window Height*/ * 0.5f, 0));
            return _transform;
        }
}
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Then you implement it as follows


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Camera2d camera = new Camera2d();

camera.Pos = //some vector2 that represents a position
camera.zoom = //some float that represents a zoom. anything > 1 will be "zoomed in" and anything < 1 will be "zoomed out"
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Then when you go to call the spritebatch.Begin function, you use the following overload


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spriteBatch.Begin(
                            SpriteSortMode.Immediate,
                            BlendState.AlphaBlend,
                            null,
                            null,
                            null,
                            null,
                            camera.get_transformation(this.GraphicsDevice));
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that should be it :D


NOTE:
Some things like the mouse position from Mouse.GetState() is not relative to the camera, so you have to add some logic like


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mouseLoc = new Vector2(curMouse.X, curMouse.Y) + (camera.Pos - new Vector2(ScreenWidth / 2, ScreenHeight / 2));
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to get the mouse position relative to the camera.