I am learning some Lite-C programming and have been able to get a PC to move, jump, etc, to include external Lite-C files, etc. Now I have a task and am a bit lost and hoping someone here can point me in the right direction.

I want to load a single MDL file and then, via clicking the LMB and dragging, move the view around the model. This way the end-user could rotate and view the model from any angle. The model, of course, would stay centered in the view.

Is there a tutorial for this or an example file that I can use to learn from?

Any help would be appreciated.

look down 4 posts to "force an object to be in front of the player"

Then look up mouse_force in the manual.

Thanks for the pointers. I'll take a look!

I'm having trouble getting the script to work. I must be doing something really bone headed.

In any case, what I really want is for the model to be the "player" and the mouse to move the camera/view around the player. So, essentially, there would be no "player", but a model in the center of the view that the camera/view would rotate around.

Sorry for me being so dense with this. It's a new world for me.

As an alternative, I could get away with rotating the actual object/model instead of rotating the view. It doesn't matter to me. I just need to present a single model that the end-user can look at from any angle via click-dragging in the view with the LMB depressed.

Oooh! mouse_force does what I want! Now I just need to lock the player in place or set the view first!

Thanks for the pointer!

Now I just need to get the basic mouse_force to function ONLY when the LMB is depressed and not have it on at all times.

if(mouse_left){
really cool code to move the camera around the model goes here

}

"player" is just a pointer and can be given to any entity. Even an NPC. Now that would be funny.

Thanks again for your help. However, I am not getting this to work. The object rotates by just moving the mouse, even if no mouse button is pressed. Here is my code:

noobish question here, but why is that an action? and should it be action_rotate? you forgot the _

Where?

The code "works" in that the object rotates as I move the mouse. I just can't figure out how to attach it to the left mouse button.

Hey! I'm an artist. All this programming is completely new to me.