Starting 3rd person

#1 One quick way is to open up game.cs as Jrah suggested and at the end of the onClientEnterGame function insert the line:

$firstperson = false;

Not sure if this is the best way since I'm a total beginner at this game stuff:)

Regards

#2 Ed in GameConnection.cc at line 32 there is:

bool GameConnection::mFirstPerson = true;

change that to false and the default SHOULD be thirdperson I believe (about to try it myself).

Phil.

#3 One thing I have noticed, is that alot of these things can be changed in more than one place :)

Thanks for the tips, guys. Time for some coffee and I'll give it a shot :)

#4 That works, James. Like a champ.

I'll poke at the .cc file, thanks Phil.

Can you feel the love?

:)

Seriously, so far this has been the most pleasant experiece I have had ina LONG time with any kind of development or learning. The engine is pretty easy, and the community is bending over itself to help each other. Happy, happy ;)

#5 The thing to watch out for.... $firstPerson is a client side variable which clients can use to toggle first person mode. $GameConnection::firstPerson is the server side equivilent. Setting $firstPerson on a dedicated server doesn't do anything.

You should be able to set the firstPerson mode for the client in the server's game.cs script (onClientEnterGame), whithout having to change the C++ code.

#6 I am just missing the syntax.

I think I may incorporate that dynamic 3rd person camera from that new tut. Sounds like it will solve my problem.

However, if someone can tell me the script syntax, that would be spiffy :)

This is whta I got, and it now workie on a dedi server:

function onClientEnterGame(%client)
{
messageClient(%client, 'MsgSystemClock', "", 0, 0);

// Create a new camera object.
%client.camera = new Camera() {
dataBlock = Observer;
};
MissionCleanup.add( %client.camera );
%client.camera.scopeToClient(%client);

// Create a player object.
spawnPlayer(%client);
$GameConnection::firstPerson = false;
}

What have I done wrong?

#7 You can just use $firstPerson = false. You don't need the "GameConnection::" namespace declaration in script.

P.S. I would love it if you tried the 3rd person camera tutorial :) I am real interested in getting feedback on the presentation and content in the tutorial in hopes to make them better as we go.

#8 Feedback posted :)

#9 Where can I find the 3rd-person camera tut?

#10 www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=forums&page=result.thread&qt=1523

#11 Grr...don't have V12 so I can't access the thread. :(

#12 If you don't have V12, then the tutorial may not do you any good. Most of the tutorial deals with modifying the engine to implement the new camera. You may still find it interesting, however.

The tutorial is on the V12 Document Repository.

#13 Thanks for putting the tut up. It's definitely interesting to see what's entailed in changing the engine in such a way. Since I'm going to be doing something similar, I want to make sure changing parts of V12 won't be too much of a hassle.