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Newcomers DBPro Corner / FPS set camera above ground when ground is object

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apophis
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I am making a FPS game. In my game I made my level including the terrain with cartography shop and exported as a .x object. Since it is a first person shooter I need to have the camera a certain number of units above the ground. Since the ground can be stairs or the second floor of a building I cannot simply do
"object position y(2) + 2"
for the y coordinate of my camera. Also since my level is not a matrix I cannot use "get ground height." How can I get the camera to stay a certain number of units above whatever the ground is at the current time (stairs, 2nd floor, terrain, etc.)
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CattleRustler
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make and control a dummy object like a cube or sphere, then stack your camera on top of it. Have a line or two of code that keeps the camera with the dummy object.

just one way to do it


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apophis
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After that what do I do with the cube to make it move above the ground. Thanks for the help.
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apophis
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I am using DBPro could you please give me some sample code.
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apophis
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Someone please help!
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well you should have some form of gravity and a collision test to not let the cube pass thru the ground - this is how I do it for bsp


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Thanks I'll try it (a.k.a. expect me back soon when I fail).
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