hi..

i'm creating a 3d chess game.i'm done modelling the board and pieces..

recently, i encountered a problem with regards to the movement of the pieces..

i'm not dealing with AI yet..

my problem is how to place a piece to its destination once i clicked it..

thankz a lot..:)

Hi,

I don't know whether you made up your chess board in ONE model or every square as a seperate model, but if you choose for each square to be a seperate entity, you may use the "mouse_ent" pointer to determine which square the mouse currently points at. The manual will help you using mouse_ent correctly. Then, if the left mouse button is clicked, simply call a function (or *assign* that function to the left mouse button, I think that's possible too) which moves the selected piece (simply create a pointer which is assigned to a piece when it is left clicked upon using mouse_ent once more) to the selected square using the "c_move(...)" command.

However, in case that your entire chess board consists of only *one* model, things are getting way more complex. Maybe someone else can answer that? Because I have no idea xD


Greets,



Alan

Yeh, if the board is made up of 64 seperate squares, then use alan's method. If it is one model, then you will have to trace from the camera to the mouse position and then place the piece acordingly. Then you will have to do some 'bounds' checking to see which square it is.

mouse_pos3d, mouse_dir3d should help.