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Newcomers DBPro Corner / doom be upon thee all! I NEED HELP

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yosepp
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Posted: 29th Dec 2002 23:08
can smoeone show me a code that will make a 3d object 2 move from player position to a place far in front of the player? i've been figuruing it for the last eternity.
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John H
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Posted: 30th Dec 2002 00:55
What are you trying to do? I can decipher your english Do you want to position an object in front of the player? Thats easy- just....

PlayerX= Object Position X(1)
PlayerY= Object Position Y(1)
PlayerZ= Object Position Z(1)

position object 2,playerx,playery,playerz+400

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Posted: 30th Dec 2002 01:03
Not sure if this is what you mean.



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Dr DooMer
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Posted: 31st Dec 2002 02:43
DooMer be upon thee!

Well, I think what you mean is you want an object to always be in front of the camera/player/object, even after repositioning and rotating the said 'entity' (used to be a QuakeC coder!). Anyway, here's a good way of doing it:

After all the movement updates to the player object/whatever, position object 2 at the player's position and align all it's angles to those of the players. Then, use the "move object" command to move object 2 forward in the direction it's facing.

There; hope that helps!

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Dr DooMer
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Posted: 31st Dec 2002 02:46
The above method is a bit haphazard and probably quite a slow way of doing it (I would personally use trig. commands), but it's simple and works in 3D. Experiment - figure out which method works best.

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yosepp
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Posted: 4th Jan 2003 15:04
hehe thx. I know my english isn't good, but i'm not from england or america too. I'm from Estonia or maybe it's called Estland by now. I doubt that anyone knows that. Anyway thanks [img][/img] haven't tried it yet but sure will!!

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