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Newcomers DBPro Corner / another n00b question. How, i says, HOW do you strafe a camera??

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CKy
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Posted: 16th Jan 2004 08:49
finally. ive found that n00b corner thing. geeze. im getting hammered for saying 'bl**dy'. i didnt think that was offencive. is n00b offencive too?? this is my question, and i concider myself one due to the q itself... so spose it cant be TOO offencive??



ANYWAY: HOW DO YOU STRAFE A CAMERA, FOR FPS GAMES???
and how do you make limbs and connect objects...
indi
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Posted: 16th Jan 2004 08:54
hehe sorry but you posted in the wrong section and "bloody" isnt a swear word in australia more a "verb" lol or something lol but it doesnt conform to the other countries here.

there is a tutorial in the DBP boxed set that describes the strafing method for a fps.

basically you want to slide the camera left and right given the current angle faced.

the compendium book has a small paragraph about it,
CKy
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Posted: 16th Jan 2004 09:19
ah ok. im in australia too
i just thought i'd go straight to the forums first, rather than search the book for something that simple. im a very lazy man.

does it have anything about connecting objects to objects asif they were limbs too?
Phaelax
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Posted: 16th Jan 2004 10:47 Edited at: 16th Jan 2004 10:49
How's this?

As for connecting limbs and glueing objects to a limb, I suggest to be a little less lazy and RTFM!

"eureka" - Archimedes
CKy
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Posted: 16th Jan 2004 13:11
geeze. if its not the moderators tellin me off for posting in the wrong spot, its other users abusing my physical incapabilities
lay off!!!

(this post will get locked for being in the wrong place and going off topic now...)
Phaelax
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Posted: 16th Jan 2004 13:48
Umm, this is in the right topic. And what are you babbling about? I gave you the source code for what you want. See that little button that says "source" with a yellow pyramid? Click on it, and voila!

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Posted: 16th Jan 2004 20:33
or you could just turn the camera left, move it a bit, turn it right and then do a sync, you don`t see all the intermediate stages if you have the code written to do a manual sync (strongly recommended since DB`s automagical sync is...er....well..not good) something like

do
if leftkey()
turn camera left 90
move camera 0.1
turn camera right 90
endif
<rest of code>
sync
loop

would make the camera strafe left, and it`s easy to follow how it works if you happen to be energisticaly challenged (or you can use a simple sin/cos math routine)

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Mussi
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Posted: 16th Jan 2004 21:11
IanM has a plugin which adds commands as MOVE CAMERA LEFT,MOVE CAMERA RIGHT, MOVE CAMERA UP, MOVE CAMERA DOWN



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IanM
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Posted: 16th Jan 2004 22:19
Bah! You got there before me. Anyway ...

Check out the totally excellent plug-ins post at the top of the DBPro forum for a list of not only my plug-ins, but loads of others too ... but mine are the best

For free Plug-ins, source and the DBPro Interface library for Visual C++ 6 and .NET
http://www.matrix1.demon.co.uk
CKy
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Posted: 17th Jan 2004 03:03
hey where can i download that plugin for the camera movement (left and right)???? is it on this site...
Mussi
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Posted: 17th Jan 2004 19:47
http://www.matrix1.demon.co.uk/



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Monty87
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Posted: 18th Jan 2004 15:29
CKy, are you aware that mulaple explanation/question marks are a sure sign of that person being as mentally stable as Russian nuclear power station in most peoples books.

Monty
CKy
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Posted: 4th Feb 2004 05:24
so wat if im im unstable

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