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A Few Things

by Ian Roach · in RTS Starter Kit · 09/20/2006 (6:50 am) · 2 replies

Ive currently comeback to the RTS pack after a long hiatus of not keeping uptodate and i have a few questions im hoping other people have answered.

A) Is there a way to focuse a camera on a unit ? i saw a thread on this but from all reports the camera was very jittery when the player moved

B) Is there a way to not render the terrain, im aiming to achieve a spacegame so ultimately dont want to render the terrain

C) As i understand it the movements e.t.c are all tied to terrain, so what i want todo is have a completely flat terrain grid thats invisible however the units would still move along this plane. Is there a way to have the unit move up and down the z plane.

Apologies if these have been answered before
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Torque Owner Wolf Dreamer
#1
09/20/2006 (11:22 am)
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C) As i understand it the movements e.t.c are all tied to terrain, so what i want todo is have a completely flat terrain grid thats invisible however the units would still move along this plane. Is there a way to have the unit move up and down the z plane.
Do you mean that you want them to ignore the terrain elevation when planning their movement path? I believe if its quicker to go around a mountain than up the side of it and back down again, then you'd want that.

Torque Owner Ian Roach
#2
09/20/2006 (7:44 pm)
Not quite wolf, i want to set the game in space, so i dont want to render terrain, but since movement is tied to it, my plan is to have a simple flat plane that all units move along, then i can move upwards or downwards from that plane on the z axis