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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / MouseX() and MouseY() restricted to Resoloution of App, anyway to change this?

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Mr Bigglesworth
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Posted: 5th Nov 2010 10:00 Edited at: 5th Nov 2010 10:01
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I am making a RTS game, and I am using Position object Cur, MouseX(), 0, MouseY() to postion the 3D cursor/pointer thing, but MouseX and MouseY are restricted to the screen res of my program. This is a problem because you can't move the mouse pointer out of a small area. Is there anyway to unrestrict or a different method to make an object follow the mouse and not be restricted, many thanks
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TheComet
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Posted: 5th Nov 2010 10:33
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You can increment the positions of the object with mousemovex() and mousemovey(). Or you could use a more advanced system and find the intersection point on the terrain where the mouse is currently pointing, and then position the object there. I believe the command is get pick vector(), but I'm not that sure.

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Posted: 5th Nov 2010 15:42
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The mousemove commands are a little unreliable though and will not always match what mousex() and mousey() do... you would loose a lot of accuracy going down that route.

I'm not sure how to answer your question though sorry!

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Van B
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Posted: 5th Nov 2010 15:51
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Look into using PICK OBJECT instead, like pass the mouse position to it, and your terrain object, and it will return the 3D position of your mouse. You can use this to find out which object you clicked on as well, by passing the range of objects you want to detect to it. Damn handy command, I wish DBPro had it when I wrote my RTS.

PICK OBJECT(x,y,startobj,endobj)

Then GET PICK VECTOR X()+camera position x() is the returned X position - you can do the same for Y and Z of course.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 5th Nov 2010 15:58
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Isn't there a command to translate 2D to 3D coordinates?
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Mr Bigglesworth
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Cool, thanks, tonight I will try using PICK OBJECT when I get home.
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