Reality Factory

Hey all.

This is my first attempt at scripted player stuff. So Please excuse my ignorance.
This may not even work

What Im doing is trying to shoot at a enemy pawn wether the enemy is in front of, higher than or lower than the plawer pawn.

So far I have the pawn realizing who is the new enemy pawn when the cursor is over the new enemy pawn.
Now I need to update the OFF_Set_Y in the SetTargetPoint( );
Or to simplify this ordeal.... I would like the bullet to aim at my mouse cursor. and fire in that direction.
Any Ideas how to do this?



Heres what I have thus far......( updated the new enemy not included )

SHOOT[()
{
AnimationSpeed(SHOOTSPEED);
MatchPlayerAngles();
UpdateTarget();
????? HERE I think------> SetTargetPoint(0,NEED THE UPDATED Y ,360);
if(self.animate_at_end)
{
FireProjectile("Shot","BIP01 R HAND",0,0,0,"PHealth");
PlaySound("deagle.wav");
if(self.lbutton_pressed=false)
{
ANM=StringCopy("Idle");
Animate(ANM);
think="Stand_Idle";
}
}
}]

I may be going about this all wrong in the first place.. if so.... any suggestions on the proper way to tackle this

sorry i forgot... im in 3rd person view

There's a variable called self.camera_pitch that tells the pitch of the camera.

So it's pretty simple to calculate the correct offsets with trigonometry:

There. Thank you Juutis.

I tried the camera_pitch w/out the trig... obviously my route didnt work...

[SetTargetPoint(0,360*sin(-self.camera_pitch)+50,360*cos(self.camera_pitch));]

( side " dumb" question ..... * this means what? )

Just had to make the Y= a Neg number and add 50 to hit my crosshair..

Thanks again

rgdy

rgdyman wrote:( side " dumb" question ..... * this means what? )

That's the multiplication sign.

I thought so.. was afraid I was way off base.. Eithere way "Looken stupid"

Impressive