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Hi,
I am conducting research using FPS creator and I am looking for two things that we really need help with.
1. we are trying to make the Entities appear randomly and float in the air without having them fall, then despawn. Is there anyone that can explain/show me how to do this?

2. Also we are trying to extrapolate the X/Y cordinates of the crosshair of the camera into a word/wordpad file. Could someone post the code as well as explain how to insert the code into the progamming of FPS creator.
This would help us a bunch. Thank you very much for your time

If you have DarkBasic Pro, you could modify the source code (available on the FPSC site)...

But I really can't help you with this. The 2nd is impossible with simple scripting, the 1st may be very hard to make

we are trying to make the Entities appear randomly and float in the air without having them fall, then despawn. Is there anyone that can explain/show me how to do this?

THe randomisation of position is impossible in FPSC as basic script commands cannot alter the xyz co-ordinates of an entity's position.

do do random floating and de-spawning try this:

:state=0,random=50:state=1
:state=1:floatrate=1
:state=1,random=100:state=2
:state=2:destroy

What Butters says is true. But there are some "Psuedo" ways to get what you're looking for.

Put this script into your ghost entity (I'm guessing that's what you're going after, if not it'll work just the same):



(Sorry, Butter Fingers, I slightly modified your code so that I wouldn't have to come up with a new one, lol)

Now set these properties for your entity:

Spawn At Start = "No"
Max at any time = 1
Maximum Spawn = 9999 (Or just something high)
Spawn after delay = "No"
Spawn when dead = "No"
Number to spawn = 1

Strength = 0 (Or, if you want it to be killable, give it a number for it's health)

Physics On = "No"


Now, put this entity in lots of different locations around the room. They will spawn at seemingly different times, and it will appear to be randomly spawned! Also, the entity will always face towards the player... kinda creepy really. If you don't want the entity to face the player just remove the ",rotatetoplr" part of the code.

For a different effect of grouped entities, change the "Qty Random" property to 3, and change the "Max at any time" property to 4. This will randomly spawn anywhere from 1-4 of the entities and they'll be grouped together.

Hope that helped a bit.


The one and only,
~PlystirE~

OK so since the random Bit cannot be done then is there anyway to extrapolate the X/Y cordinates of the actual entity.

What we are doing essentially is setting up a level for people to watch. but we need the X/Y cordinates of the entities on the screen to try and hope to Code our data better....

any ideas?
Thanks again