Getting X and Y position of player mouse.

[mattdraw]

I'm trying to create a camera system in which the player's camera follows an averaged point between both the x and y positions of the player's hero and the player's mouse position. This will give more freedom to viewing the map around the player's character, but still limits them to viewing wherever they please, to give you an idea of what I want.

It's a simple concept, but the Worldeditor has no "X coordinate of mouse" function to choose from, which is pretty obismal.

Any ideas?

 

[Wietlol]

Well... there are 2 ways of tracking the mouse position of the player.

1. Make a dummy unit, select that unit, force-UI to cast spell, force player to click.
Target point of ability being cast = position of mouse.

2. Create trackables.
Make numberless trackables over the map and then you have a hover event and click event.
However this is very costly and will be glitchy.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Any ideas?

Migrate to StarCraft II which does have the required feature.

Either that or forget about it because WC3 just does not support effective mouse analysis in triggers.

 

[Wietlol]

You could also use Sharpcraft but it is not recommended for multiplayer maps because every player has to have sharpcraft as well.

EDIT: I will be taking a good look at SC2 upcoming week though.
Might be interesting.