Forgive me if this is not the correct forum. However I do have a question about Game Maker Studio.

Making a top down shooter is not so hard in itself, but the part I'm having difficulty on is I would like the camera to move and rotate the view fixing the player at the bottom of the screen and then moving the level around the player. Is there a way to move the camera with the player rather than having the player move around the screen? I know it's possible to angle the camera around the center of the screen (for lack of a better word, the origin), is there any way to make the player the origin?

Thanks.

I've never used Game Maker Studio, but it seems like you're looking for this:

https://docs.yoyogames.com/source/dadiospice/001_advanced%20use/more%20about%20rooms/views.html

At the bottom of that documentation page, it discusses object following for a view, so your player or whatever you want would be the object to follow.

If you give more detail about how it is set up, I might be able to give a better explanation. Hopefully this helps though!

tomd1013's reply is what you want. As an additional point you can take a manual approach to update the view during the "step" event... for example: view[0].left = character.x - view[0].width/2 -- and set top,width,height in a similar way. I'd do this to add manual effects like shake, or pan, or more creative effects. Pardon any incorrect GML it's been a while.