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CornStalks

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Posted: 8th Jul 2004 08:00

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Today I have been trying to find out how to strafe, and everything I heard from people never helped me. So I came up with a system of my own. Thanks to taking Geometry

I was able to figure it out. I have noticed a few posts on people wondering how to strafe, I thought I might just tell everybody that has these problems.

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rem Store the object's Y angle in the variable angle
angle=object angle y(1)
rem get the ground height and store in ground
ground=get ground height(1,x,z)
rem strafe left
if leftkey()=1
1x=(cos(angle)*-20)+object position x(1)
1z=(sin(angle)*20)+object position z(1)
position object 1,1x,ground,1z
endif
rem strafe right
if rightkey()=1
2x=(cos(angle)*20)+object position x(1)
2z=(sin(angle)*-20)+object position z(1)
position object 1,2x,ground,2z
endif

the number 20 is how fast you will move. Increase it to move faster, decrease to move slower. copy the code and play around with it.
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vampyre

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Posted: 10th Jul 2004 02:45

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How can I do this and have the joystick move left and right properly I still have this problem, I know how to get a H.O.T.A.S joystick to straffe using the rudder bar or pedals but to get the object to turn still is a problem as the joystick works but jerkliy, I suppose I will just have to see what I can do with this code also how do I get the camera to follo the straffing object when it straffes? thanks:
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Phaelax

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Posted: 10th Jul 2004 20:32

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Your code doesn't do strafing. If I press left, my character should move sideways to its left. Yours always move in the direction it's facing.

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if rightkey()
   x = newxvalue(x,wrapvalue(angle+90),speed)
   z = newzvalue(z,wrapvalue(angle+90),speed)
endif

if leftkey()
   x = newxvalue(x,wrapvalue(angle-90),speed)
   z = newzvalue(z,wrapvalue(angle-90),speed)
endif

position object 1,x,0,z

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