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Flinchy
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okay basically i am making a basic FPS, it is for an assignment.

i'm having troubles getting jumping to happen

i read through the FPS guide in other forum but the jumping is based on the camera being oriented to the object (as far as i can tell at least) (and possibly that i don't have dbPRO.



where object 2 is the gun

but mine is the other way around, the object is oriented to the camera

is there some way to have the camera move up with the object following it in a jumping fashion

sorry if i'm being unclear.
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Libervurto
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Do you mean you want the camera to go up first and then the gun follows: as if the gunman is swinging his arms to get more lift?

You could use curvevalue() for this, I always forget how the parameters work but it basically goes from a start number to a target number by increments. By default it gets slower and slower the closer you get to the target value, I think that would look like a jump .
hope I was of help.

PS I always write in lower case (maybe having IF ENDIF etc in caps), for me the capital letters just seem to merge together. I also notice you have no annotation, if this snippet is taken directly from the tutorial it would be a good exercise to see if you can add REM statements to explain what's going on, then you wont have to read through all the code again to work out what it does because you have your comments.

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Latch
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Quote: "but mine is the other way around, the object is oriented to the camera

is there some way to have the camera move up with the object following it in a jumping fashion"


If you say your relationship between the camera and the object is opposite of the tutorial, then try switching the reference to the object position with a reference to the camera position:

Where you have POSITION OBJECT etc, try POSITION CAMERA

Where you have OBJECT POSITION X(2) try CAMERA POSITION X() and the same for Y and Z.

Or are you trying what Obese87 was asking about?

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Flinchy
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Posted: 8th Jul 2007 08:26
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ha

this is incredibly basic, i haven't put a particularly large effort into this, it isn't so important at the moment

yes i do rem out my statements just for that lol

i'll think i'll try what Latch said

the gun object is positioned to the camera, therefore the camera has to move for the gun to follow.
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Flinchy
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well i just gave up, it wasn't necessary, and wouldn't work no matter what i did... JUMP_SPEED# went up and down as it should... the camera just didn't haha.

thanks for the help anyway.
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Pixelator
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i have a good jump code. you can probably edit it to fit your needs.
i just cant figure out the code snipped function of the post though

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Latch
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@flinchy

The method I proposed should work. Though I think the values for jump_speed# may be a bit small. I added a matrix for reference, and changed the value of jump_speed#, and also swapped out OBJECT for CAMERA and it seems to work:



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nerd69
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ill try them iv got that same problem with game

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