aha, i know what u mean, ive done this before with an FPS, I started off using a cylinder and wanted it to collide with any enemies, but then i found a better solution.. here's how
say you have 10 enemies, then make 10 plains, 1 plain per enemy,
position these plains at the player and make each one point to its corresponding enemy, and if you are roughly at the same angle as say plain number 6, then that means you are pointing at enemy number 6, then you can shoot it...
`this will find out who you are pointing at....
`its pretty simple...say you make 4 enemies, each enemy has a cube..
`the cubes are positioned at the camera and hidden, they each point to an enemy...
`if the camera's angle is roughly the same as one of the cubes then that would
`mean that you are pointing at one of the enemies, then it simple tells you who.....
`i just put it on the forums coz i thought it would be usefull, you can
`use it from free, i dont need any credit :)
`setup
sync on
sync rate 0
hide mouse
`stuff
set camera range 1,8000
make object plain 1,1,1
position object 1,0,0,60
lock object on 1
disable object zdepth 1
`create enemies
make object cube 2,100
position object 2,500,50,0
make object cube 3,100
position object 3,500,50,500
make object cube 4,100
position object 4,50,50,0
make object cube 5,100
position object 5,5000,50,50
color object 2,rgb(255,0,255)
color object 3,rgb(255,0,255)
color object 4,rgb(255,0,255)
color object 5,rgb(255,0,255)
`each enemy has a little object
make object cube 6,1
make object cube 7,1
make object cube 8,1
make object cube 9,1
hide object 6
hide object 7
hide object 8
hide object 9
`main loop
do
`some controls
position mouse 320,240
cx#=wrapvalue(cx#+mousemovey())
cy#=wrapvalue(cy#+mousemovex())
rotate camera cx#,cy#,0
if mouseclick()=1 then move camera 5
if mouseclick()=2 then move camera -5
`here, we position the cubes at the camera
for c=6 to 9
position object c,camera position x(),camera position y(),camera position z()
next c
`point each cube to each enemy
point object 6,object position x(2),object position y(2),object position z(2)
point object 7,object position x(3),object position y(3),object position z(3)
point object 8,object position x(4),object position y(4),object position z(4)
point object 9,object position x(5),object position y(5),object position z(5)
`if the camera angle is roughly the same as the cube.....
if camera angle y()>object angle y(6)-10
if camera angle y()<object angle y(6)+10
if camera angle x()>object angle x(6)-10
if camera angle x()<object angle x(6)+10
obj=2
endif
endif
endif
endif
if camera angle y()>object angle y(7)-10
if camera angle y()<object angle y(7)+10
if camera angle x()>object angle x(7)-10
if camera angle x()<object angle x(7)+10
obj=3
endif
endif
endif
endif
if camera angle y()>object angle y(8)-10
if camera angle y()<object angle y(8)+10
if camera angle x()>object angle x(8)-10
if camera angle x()<object angle x(8)+10
obj=4
endif
endif
endif
endif
if camera angle y()>object angle y(9)-10
if camera angle y()<object angle y(9)+10
if camera angle x()>object angle x(9)-10
if camera angle x()<object angle x(9)+10
obj=5
endif
endif
endif
endif
`tell player who you're pointing at!
ink rgb(255,0,0),0
if obj=2 then center text object screen x(2),object screen y(2)-60,"Enemy 1"
if obj=3 then center text object screen x(3),object screen y(3)-60,"Enemy 2"
if obj=4 then center text object screen x(4),object screen y(4)-60,"Enemy 3"
if obj=5 then center text object screen x(5),object screen y(5)-60,"Enemy 4"
`end loop
sync
loop
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