sweet stuff...
i have to figure out a few things though, but all in all, if this just gets a little better adaptable, to not rely on the implemented code, one can easily use this as base for a 3rd person game of any kind, like action, fighting, jump and run ect...

as said, i have to play around with it a bit. maybe i find a good way to implementy MY camera with this code, sicne im not very good at coding. then i just have to find out how to implement shooting and im ready to go:-p

@nkl - to add the enemy pain effect you will need the enemies to be animated, call handle_animation(1); from the enemie's while loop, then when the sword strikes the enemy change it's animation to pain. For the ladder climbing, you will need to create a new my.movement_mode state, which only moves the player up and down and animates the player with the ladder animation, it will need to be triggered by approaching a ladder. Easy to say in concept, implementing it requires scripting experience.

this is really nice, but i think a chase camera similar to the zelda code would be much more appropriate for a kingdom hearts type game. clicking a mouse for fast combo based combat isnt as intuitive as using a joypad, and also the camera is somthing i should never have to worry about moving while in battle. if you could make a hybrid of this and the zelda code i think it would be a perfect for kindom hearts style gameplay.

It's pretty easy to set up a simple camera that way. The player moves relative to the camera so you pan the camera as the player moves left and right rather than have the camera controlled by the mouse. This may not be the best code to do the job but it works:

Code:

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	IF (key_w == 1 && key_s == 0 && key_a == 0 && key_d == 0) { temp.x = camera.pan; }
	IF (key_s == 1 && key_w == 0 && key_a == 0 && key_d == 0) { temp.x = camera.pan + 180; }
	IF (key_a == 1 && key_s == 0 && key_w == 0 && key_d == 0) { temp.x = camera.pan + 90; camera.pan += 5 * time; }
	IF (key_d == 1 && key_s == 0 && key_a == 0 && key_w == 0) { temp.x = camera.pan - 90; camera.pan -= 5 * time; }
	IF (key_w == 1 && key_a == 1 && key_d == 0 && key_s == 0) { temp.x = camera.pan + 45; camera.pan += 2.5 * time; }
	IF (key_w == 1 && key_d == 1 && key_a == 0 && key_s == 0) { temp.x = camera.pan - 45; camera.pan -= 2.5 * time; }
	IF (key_s == 1 && key_a == 1 && key_d == 0 && key_w == 0) { temp.x = camera.pan + 135; camera.pan += 6 * time; }
	IF (key_s == 1 && key_d == 1 && key_a == 0 && key_w == 0) { temp.x = camera.pan - 135; camera.pan -= 6 * time; }

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Use that concept, introduce some new variables and you can set up a camera like that pretty easily if you have the experience.

Just like to add my thanks to David for this contribution. This has helped me from a few tentative baby steps to more confident strides in using this great little program.

can someone please upload this somewhere so i can download it. it looks realy good and im drooling to try it .

thank you.

Look at the first page, there are 3 links; this tut is very very cool!

Did anyone changed the code so that the player may kill monters and die?
If so, can you give me that piece of code?
Thanks for this great code!
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Thanks in advance.

This may be a temporary problem but... i can't download it...:(... looks awesome, I really wanna try it, but I can't download...
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Thx for giving this to the community!!
Micha


Take that back. I got it from the AUM recources.. thanks!

Well... This is the worst code ever... I have never seen anything... - WOW! I Cant say that with a straight face... wow! I love this tut sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much. You have helped me out soooo much. thanks for the great contribution. PS. Ill be posting up some pics soon of my altered version... lets just say my players sword is a bit... organic... LOL