Hi there, for our game we need to create several buildings at the mousepointer ala command and conquer. Now the manual for gamestudio doesn't provide enough information on how to do this. Can anyone help my projectgroup with this by providing some code or linking a manual? This is what we have so far

Code:

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function buildbuilding
{	
	var buildingspawnpos[3] = mouse_pos.x, mouse_pos.y, -500;			

	if(mouse_left == 1)
	{
		ent_create( "witch.MDL", buildingspawnpos, NULL );		
	}	
	
}

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We also have buttons that can be pressed, so we can detect the mouse pos. We use a panel to spawn these buildings, but so far we can only spawn them if we imput coordinates, other than 'mouse_pos.x and mouse_pos.y'.

use vec_for_screen:

Code:

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function BuildBuilding()
{
   var vecSpawnPos[3];

   if(mouse_left)
   {
       vec_set(vecSpawnPos, vector( mouse_pos.x,mouse_pos.y, camera.z));
       vec_for_screen(vecSpawnPos, camera);
       ent_create( "witch.MDL", vecSpawnPos, NULL );
   }
}


i guess you call this funcion after you clicked on a button, dont you?
so you propably have to you a while loop. :p


nipx 
 

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Try something like this... I've jused this in test of rpg game with isometric view:)

function moving_mouse //or you can put this to main function in loop
{
while(1)
{
MOUSE_POS.X = POINTER.X; MOUSE_POS.Y = POINTER.Y;
wait(1);
}
}

function gravity
{
vec_set(temp, my.x);
temp.z -= 10000; // trace downwards 500 quants below
trace_mode = IGNORE_ME + IGNORE_PASSABLE + IGNORE_SPRITES + ignore_models + use_box + scan_texture;
result = trace (my.x, temp);
my.z -= result; // put me on the ground
}

function spawn
{
temp.x = MOUSE_POS.x;
temp.y = MOUSE_POS.y;
temp.z = 500; // how far from camera
vec_for_screen(temp,CAMERA);
you = ENT_CREATE("witch>mdl",temp,gravity);
}

ON_MOUSE_LEFT = spawn;

Copy the "ON_MOUSE_LEFT = spawn;" in ure Main Function

Angel... why?
You don't have to copy this to main function.
It could be enywhere like separate line of code, at the bottom of wdl

Sry my Fault

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