Camera Target

[Ardnived]

It seems unlike but I am really hoping someone can offer me a way to do this.

Essentially what I want to do is to let you use your mouse to point your camera (Using Mouselook) at certain objects, and then press the right mouse button to examine the object.

In Game Shot

As you can see in the image above, there is a target in the middle of the screen that you can use to aim at the object. I would like it so that for example you could point the mouse at the door, and press the right mouse button and it would open (Assuming that you are close enough).


So far my thoughts have been to use some kind of projectile to be launched from the camera to see what it is pointing at. But I am not really sure how I would go about that.

 

[Omniferous]

Why not make the door a selectable object and use the normal Warcraft engine to do your work for you? Have a trigger that executes when the door is selected, and checks to see if the clicking player's unit is within range.

 

[Ardnived]

Can't,

first off, this is Starcraft

But seriously, the mouse disappears when using mouselook, so you can't select anything, and also the mouse isn't always in the center.

 

[Omniferous]

Can't,

first off, this is Starcraft

But seriously, the mouse disappears when using mouselook, so you can't select anything, and also the mouse isn't always in the center.

Typos, typos.

That said, I haven't played with mouselook at all yet, so I didn't realize. You could use a projectile like you said and use a 3D point that has a height orientation, I guess...

I dunno. It seems like it might be more efficient if mouselook has relative angles that you can query. I'm not really sure how to approach it, since I don't know the mouselook mechanics.

 

[Ardnived]

I can figure out the directing of the projectile. Just need the pitch (angle), weapon range (Hypotenuse), and a bit of trigonometry.


The problem is just determining the actual impacting on units