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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Object Pointing to mouse?

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Silvester
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Posted: 31st Jul 2006 19:37
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how do i do that?

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Trinita
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Posted: 31st Jul 2006 21:23
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Please explain more what you need,or place some code.

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
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Silvester
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Posted: 31st Jul 2006 21:40
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i got a weapon in my shoot em up,it can now shoot but i cant get it to point to the mouse cursor

its needed to aim on an enemy and such.

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Trowbee
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Posted: 31st Jul 2006 22:23
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why not just rotate the player/camera/weapon based on mousemovex and mousemovey, and target the center pixel (or another fixed point)?
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Sixty Squares
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Posted: 1st Aug 2006 01:02
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OR if you have DBPro Pick Object and Pick Screen should help you.

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Acolyte Entertainment
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Posted: 1st Aug 2006 02:40 Edited at: 1st Aug 2006 02:46
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well. i suppose (pretty basic) but you could have an object follow the mouse. then have the other objects point too the cordinates of the box folowing the mouse. just a basic conecept. so basic... it might just work....



im a nubey too so dont flame my helpingness

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CattleRustler
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Posted: 1st Aug 2006 03:23
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translating the mouse xy into 3d space will require Vectors math

/me looks around for a certain not_comedian Bear...

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