Hi All,

I had used pervious version of 3D game studio about 10 years ago (I believ version 3 or 4), so I am new to Lite-C scripting and am a little lost.

I had perviously made an isometric system where the camera moved with the player character as it moved around the game level. None of my code or old tricks work anymore and I am becoming a little frustrated with the whole thing. I am living in Tokyo teaching Engllish and I need to have my old hobby back to keep me company.

I basically need two things:
1. Get an isometric cam system setup. I have gotten this to work by several different methods in A7, but I can't get it to control the player entity. Only the cam moves even when I have a player entity with the proper behavior applied to it.

Which leads me to #2

2. Control the player while having an external cam (in my old version I could control both, but I wrote all the code to do it).

I know it must be something simple I have not found in the ttorials or manuals...but I am about to give up

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Can't believe that the tutorial that come with Lite-C don't help you.
They are very basic and step by step and good.

You want to control the player from the camera code?
Why not the other way round?
A very simple 'isometric' code:

#include <acknex.h> // include these predefined, needed files in our project
#include <default.c>

#define PRAGMA_ZERO//this simplifies a lot for people who are familiar with C-Script

action go()
{
player = me;
while(1)
{
my.x += key_cuu - key_cud;
my.y += key_cur - key_cul;
camera.x = player.x;
camera.y = player.y - 150;//adjust the values to your needs
camera.z = player.z + 150;
camera.tilt = -45;// I guess this is the right value, there are other ways to assure that the camera always looks at the player
wait(1);
}
}