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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / RTS Style Selection (QUESTION)

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wickedly kick it
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Posted: 21st Jul 2011 05:49
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Just curious on how this could be achieved.

Assume all my "Selectable" Characters will be a type called "Character" they all have an X and Y value, as well as a boolean value of "Selected" Would i simply check if each character is in the bounds of the selection rectangle by checking if x > blah and x< blah and y >blah and y<blah. Then change all the effected characters selected variable to true? OR is there a better way to do this?

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Phaelax
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Posted: 21st Jul 2011 06:07
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Quote: " Would i simply check if each character is in the bounds of the selection rectangle "

Yes.

Is this 2d or 3d?

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Posted: 21st Jul 2011 06:22
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would it really matter since you would only want to select in 2 dimensions? But for sake of this 2D

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Posted: 21st Jul 2011 06:41
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selecting 3D objects could appear inaccurate when close to the camera because of the screen XY coordinates. For instance, you could have a unit's head selected but it won't register because it's not the model's origin.

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Posted: 21st Jul 2011 15:04
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True Didn't think of that!

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