Hey, I am in a game developement class at Drexel University, in Philadelphia, and our game is a third person action shooter where there's nothing but big boss fights, ala Shadows, and we have a weapon in the game that if you are aiming at something it teleports you with the object when you fire the gun if its able to switch places with that object.

basically i am trying to make it so when i press a key it will display the players x,y, and z coordinates and i cant figure even that part out. im still new to this language so any help would be awesome.

actually if anyone has any ideas on how to do anyof this, let me know

Assuming "player=my;" :

Code:

---

panel PlayerLocPan
{
	digits(10,10,6,*,1,my.x);
	digits(10,30,6,*,1,my.y);
	digits(10,50,6,*,1,my.z);
	flags = visible;
}  

---

Would show the players coordinates in the level at all times. Not hard to map the visibility of the panel to a key.

Hope that helped!

Ok awesome! Now, how would i get each of those into a variable...

something like

xVar = my.x;

??

Just like that really...
In a function as long as the variable was declared you could just type what you just did...

function WhatHaveYou()
{
...... // some code
xVar = my.x,
xVar = my.y;
etc.
...... // more code
}

If I may direct you to AUM 59 you can read the workshop about weapons using c_trace which should help immensely in your transporter idea. I'm a terrible coder and I've already figured out a way to acclomplish that

wow! thanks so much! i know what you mean, i am just a web developer, but luckily some of this stuff caries over. long story short, our programmer dropped out and i was the only one with ANY coding experience, so i am trying to pick up the pieces. i will let you know how it turns out ;P

thanks so much!

it keeps showing all three coords as 0.

any ideas?

=(

Basically I have

panel showXYZ()
{
digits(10,10,6,*,1,my.x);
digits(10,30,6,*,1,my.y);
digits(10,50,6,*,1,my.z);
flags = visible;
}

starter showPlayerXYZ(){
while(1){
showXYZ.visible = on;
showXYZ.refresh = on;
wait(1);
}


and that just displays three 0's

nvm figured it out