3rd person main character

[Eagle]

I want to use my witch model as the main character in my game and I know that many of you have already built projects like this so if you have any tips or code sample or even a "How too" would be MOST appreciated!

 

Thanks everyone!

Always~

[Canardia]

If you could send me your witch, I could check out how straight it would work with existing templates, like gamelib.

I kinda hate to write the whole code again, when I simultaneously try to get the FAQ code put in a library.

[Eagle]

Metatron you are Awesome! Let me zip it up and email it to you! I will need an email address you can receive large files too. Can you post that for me or email it to me at vickie.eagle@gmail.com ?

 

Always~

[Eagle]

ok the file is 12mb zipped up, I have it in a .rar format, can you open those or do you need a zip?

[cassius]

There is a ball game example in the asset store. Third person written in c++. Could be adapted to your requirements.

[Clackdor]

This is very high level of what I did here:

 

My First Demo Video

 

controller = CreateController();

camera = GetLayerCamera(GetFrameworkLayer(0));
EntityParent (camera,controller);
PositionEntity(camera,Vec3());  //position the camera in local space to be behind the controller or wherever you want it

mesh = LoadMesh();
EntityParent(mesh, controller);

//begin looop
while {

PointEntity(camera,controller);

Animate(mesh,...);

UpdateControler();

}

 

Of course there's more logical code in there, but those are the Leadwerks commands I use.

[Eagle]

Thanks Clackdor !

I'll play with it and see if I can get it to work. I really liked your video too! That's what I am trying to do~

 

Always~

[AggrorJorn]

A little headsup when using parenting for Third person camera control:

 

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/2966-third-person-camera-discussion/page__p__27453__hl__third+person__fromsearch__1#entry27453