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Dark GDK / Terrain and not going up hills.

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j911g
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Posted: 5th Mar 2012 21:37
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Hello all, I'm new to dark basic and I was wondering if anyone had some ideas for a program I'm going to make.

Basically I've got a height map that I've constructed into a maze.

The camera is set to always follow along the ground and be controleld using the arrow keys, but I don't want it to be able to go over the walls.

Any ideas on how I could get this to work? I would appreciate any help. I searched for similar problems but couldn't find any.
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Hawkblood
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Posted: 5th Mar 2012 22:26
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Your camera will be following an avatar or is it first person? Either way, you can do a check as the character is going forward. If the elevation difference is greater than your threshold, then don't move forward. Take it a bit further and check the x and z components seperately. If that component is not colliding (making it go past the elevation difference threshold), then use that component to change the location.

Are you working with GDK or DBP?

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j911g
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Posted: 5th Mar 2012 22:45
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It's first person and I'm working with GDK.

How would I stop it from just moving forward if I'm using the dbControlCameraUsingArrowKeys function?

With collision I run into the problem that the collision box on a height map is not well defined, so I end up almost always colliding.

And thank you for the reply!
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Hawkblood
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Don't use dbControlCameraUsingArrowKeys. Move the camera manually. That way you have better control. Also, don't use collision box. Use dbGetTerrainGroundHeight. (I assume you are using GDK's terrain). I also assume you already have a "mouse look" function.?

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I did make a mouse look function, and was able to get it working using the terrain height rather than collision. Thank you for the replies Hawkblood, I appreciate the help!
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