In a 3rd person game there''s one character. How do you make him move? What code do you use? What techniques? Mouse or keyboard? Do you use functions? etc. Any extra info appreciated. I have just started a new game based on such things and I would appreciate it if you could answer.

That is a very vague, or should I say all-encompassing question. Do you know anything about 3d engines yet? Have you written any code to do 3d graphics? Do you know how to render a 3d shape on the screen yet? Do you know about viewing frustums and all that stuff, like camera position, angles and such? I think it would be very difficult to answer your question until you understand these sort of things. Uh, I just noticed that you asked "Do you use functions?" That makes me think you don''t know how to program yet. If I were you, I would learn to program first.
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quote: Original post by Stelman

In a 3rd person game there''s one character. How do you make him move? What code do you use? What techniques? Mouse or keyboard? Do you use functions? etc. Any extra info appreciated. I have just started a new game based on such things and I would appreciate it if you could answer.

Try this link:
http://www.gamedev.net/hosted/glvelocity/files/rpgsource.zip

This is from GLVelocity and is VB source for a top down RPG Client the guy was writing and stopped.




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1)Thanks wren.

2) Farmer, I did not talk about a 3d engine, but about a 3rd person game. If I were you I would first try to understand what the other wants to say, then think what I should say, and finally post. When you appear out of the blue saying "you should learn how to program" it''s a bit insulting, you know, and shows what kind of person you are. I hoped to get some info on motion, and other stuff, but it seems you want to show how smart you are. And tell me a good reason not to use functions. They can be prooved very useful (however I have never tried to move something with functions). Especially (in an rpg) when you want to caltulate damage, effects and such from an attack or a spell