TPS Find Terrain Camera pointing at

[maskedpoptart]

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So I have a working 3rd person camera and movement system. I'm planning on making a 3rd person shooter, of sorts. Now I am working on a system that finds the point of terrain that the camera is looking at, which I will later use in collisions between the ground and projectiles. My current method seems to be quite inaccurate, so I was wondering:
1) How can you get the absolute height of terrain/the camera/a unit?
2) If you have a working 3rd person shooter, how did you go about finding the intersection between the camera orientation vector and the terrain? I tried a simple loop that gradually moved a point farther from the camera, until the point's absolute z was less than the terrain's z.

 

[tagg1080]

So I have a working 3rd person camera and movement system. I'm planning on making a 3rd person shooter, of sorts. Now I am working on a system that finds the point of terrain that the camera is looking at, which I will later use in collisions between the ground and projectiles. My current method seems to be quite inaccurate, so I was wondering:
1) How can you get the absolute height of terrain/the camera/a unit?
2) If you have a working 3rd person shooter, how did you go about finding the intersection between the camera orientation vector and the terrain? I tried a simple loop that gradually moved a point farther from the camera, until the point's absolute z was less than the terrain's z.

http://forums.sc2mapster.com/develo...gger-how-to-target-with-mouselook-tracelines/

He is pretty dang good at explaining his way of doing it.

 

[maskedpoptart]

http://forums.sc2mapster.com/develo...gger-how-to-target-with-mouselook-tracelines/

He is pretty dang good at explaining his way of doing it.

Lol ya I just saw that. Thanks anyway.