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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Freelancer mouse steering?

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PaTTE
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Posted: 10th Aug 2004 19:00
Anyone have any ideas on how to make the same kind of mouse steering in DBP as in the game Freelancer? You press a button and the ship moves towards the mouse pointer.
zircher
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Joined: 27th Dec 2002
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Posted: 11th Aug 2004 01:00
I use the PICK OBJECT and pick vector commands to get a 3D coordinate where the mouse intersects an invisible plane. That gives me a way point that a ship can navigate towards. There are other commands that also convert a 2D mouse location into a 3D world coordinate. I like the map clicking method because it works from nearly any camera angle.
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TAZ

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