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Newcomers DBPro Corner / creating random movement

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rudie dudie
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Posted: 11th Apr 2004 22:00
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i am trying to make my firis game is a space type shootemup im haveing a great deal of truble getting the ships ive created to move independently they all move dut come to a halt at the edge of the 3d space ive used can anyone help,i was hopeing to have it finshed for ayoung friends birthday and would hate to let him down and being a first timer i think ive bitten off a bit more than i can chew me and my big mouth any help wuold be great

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ReD_eYe
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Posted: 12th Apr 2004 14:20
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It would help to see the code. When creating random movement, what i do is pick a random position to move the object to, then move it from its current position to the new (random) position, when it gets there, i pick a new random position for it to go to...

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muscles
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another option is to move the object a set amount of distance, randomly rotate it on all 3 axes, and move it again.
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zircher
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Using the relative turning and movement commands in DBP would make muscles's method pretty easy to implement. And, it would work for 2D games as well if you only rotated on one axis.
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Mr Monkey Man
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Just thought you might want to know that if you are going to be using the rnd() command that you will get the same result everytime you run the game, so you might want to use the randomize() command as well as the rnd() command to make the random movement more random. Read the manual for more information.

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