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tomeriker · Post by **tomeriker** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:59 pm

I have been reading the forum and can't seem to find the info I need... So, here goes.. My plan is to start working on a RPG, but I am unsure if RF will do that.. It seems everything I read is about FPS.. Can RF help me create a RPG?? If so, what do I change to get the 3rd person view? I have read 2 tutorial and niether said how to set it up.. I would like the game to be a coursor/click to direct the character, but have a movable 3rd person camera. Neverwinter Nights comes to mind. But I could deal with another style if I have to. I have this game in my head driving me crazy!

Thanks in advance for any help..

LtForce · Post by **LtForce** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:03 pm

If you know how to program with SimKin then yes, RF will help ya, but if you don't you won't be able to do anything that's related with RPG

P.S.: Welcome to the forums!(Always wanted to say that...)

Anonymu$ · Post by **Anonymu$** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:15 pm

You cn change camera by pressing F1 F2 F3 Ingame

Very welcome to the forums

Post by **QuestOfDreams** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:58 am

My plan is to start working on a RPG, but I am unsure if RF will do that..

Yes RF can do RPG style games.

If so, what do I change to get the 3rd person view?

In th ePlayerSetup entity set LevelViewPoint to 1 to start the level in 3rd person view.

I would like the game to be a coursor/click to direct the character, but have a movable 3rd person camera.

Although there are some scripting functions to select objects with the mouse, the player movement can only controlled via the keyboard for now...

Post by **Jay** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:50 pm

Nope you actually CAN do mouse movement but that's very advanced and needs much math (that was actually the thing with the asin,acos and atan functions i wanted to have). But that's really really difficult i haven't figured out to do this already, when i figure it out (because i wanted to have this feature too) i will keep you updated.

It will only be possible to translate the mouse pos in a way that allows a scripted player to change its direction in the direction of the mouse and then when you right click he will walk. (this only makes sense in top-down view; done with a fixed camera that actually isn't fixed and is moved inside the world.) Neverwinter Nights where you click onto some point and he automatically walks to there.

I will keep you updated....

Juutis · Post by **Juutis** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:48 pm

Just an idea:
If there was a pawn in the camera's position, wouldn't it be possible to calculate the distance to the geometry 'under' the mouse cursor? I mean, if the cursor is in position (X,Y) on the screen, we could use GetCollideDistance() to get the distance between the camera and the point over which the cursor is. In other words, it would translate 2D coordinates into 3D coordinates.
There's also a command for moving a scriptpoint around. So a scriptpoint could then be placed to the point where the mouse has been clicked, and with a scripted player it wouldn't be hard to make the character move there.

I haven't thought about the math much, but I think that by playing around with the angles it is possible.

Post by **Jay** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:26 pm

Good ideas there. But i am unsure if this could work as we still have the problem of converting 2D to 3D space...

I've thought more of first translating the MouseCoursor Coordinates with the player coordinates and then determining the angle the player must have by getting atan of the two resultung Coordinates...

I have to think about implementing a atan2() function via the script...

Sorry i am a bit tired now and don't waat to explain everything in detail...