# Panning / zooming

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/panning-zooming/192529>\
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**Created:** [June 29, 2006, 5:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/panning-zooming/192529 "2006-06-29T05:25:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![kpxnamja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7c8e57/32.png) [@kpxnamja](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kpxnamja)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 5:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/panning-zooming/192529/1 "2006-06-29T05:25:27Z")

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For a game, I’ve been trying to create a “zoom in” effect where a character is suddenly given attention and zoomed in to almost 2x magnification and in a second the game resumes a normal screen.  
I tried to simply do the tedious \_width/\_height methods however, I thought there would be an easier way to call a method of a center coordinate and zoom as a whole?  
leanding towards putting everything under a mc… hmm any help?