libgdx reset OrthographicCamera position

Question

i have a problem with resetting the position of the camera in a Java application. It's a side scroller game, where the camera is focused (zoomed) on a part of the screen..

in one class (UI) the camera has the following settings:

OrthographicCamera camera = new OrthographicCamera();
camera.setToOrtho(false, FlappyWizardGame.WIDTH / 2,FlappyWizardGame.HEIGHT / 2);

in the update() method the camera should follow the moving figure:

camera.position.x = wizard.getPosition().x + 80;

in the render() method:

spriteBatch.setProjectionMatrix(camera.combined);

now my problem is, when the player loses, another UI should pop up. But because of the camera's zoom, the Background (Texture) is not shown correctly..

I hope you understand what i mean and thanks for the help!

Kind regards!

EDIT: It appears that the problem is with the SpriteBatch, because it's set to "Camera.combined". Is there any way to reset it?

Answer 1

Offset the background Texture to draw at wizard.getPosition().x - offset. Where offset is the distance from the origin(top left) of wizard to the left side of the screen.

Answer 2

So the solution was to reposition the camera like this:

camera.setToOrtho(false, FlappyWizardGame.WIDTH, FlappyWizardGame.HEIGHT);

and in the render method to reset the SpriteBatch like this:

sb.setProjectionMatrix(camera.combined);

Thanks for your help!