Cursor location for crosshair

[elDoRado]

I'm trying to develop a simple fps, where the crosshair is your cursor, but i dont know how to
get cursor location to set the crosshair on..

[ProgrammingFun]

You should bind the cursor to the corner or middle of the screen and then detect the amount of movements in any given direction.

[Beastinonyou]

ProgrammingFun @ Sun Nov 13, 2011 7:55 pm wrote:

You should bind the cursor to the corner or middle of the screen and then detect the amount of movements in any given direction.

Lol?

take a look at: Mouse.Where

[ProgrammingFun]

Beastinonyou @ Sun Nov 13, 2011 8:13 pm wrote:

Lol?

take a look at: Mouse.Where

I know mouse.where exists, I have used it before...but all FPS games have the mouse rooted to a certain area on the screen (including turing games on this site) because this is a more accurate (IMO) way to do it for a game that relies heavily on mouse precision.

[Tony]

For that to work, you'd need to get the OS to not move the mouse cursor, and have it send mouse displacement events, rather than current location. As far as I remember, Turing is unable to do either.

The behaviour can sort of be emulated as long as the mouse doesn't leave the active window. Meaning no 360 degree turns (one could up the sensitivity, but that would only linearly increase the max turn amount)

[ProgrammingFun]

I'm certain that I have seen it on a Turing app here somewhere...

[Tony]

[citation needed]

[Aange10]

Tony @ 13/11/2011, 7:55 pm wrote:

[citation needed]

*Facebook Like*

[Zren]

Someone did do a 3D FPS game with 3D text, but he did not capture the mouse. He did do a pretty good job within his limits however.

I was more annoyed at the fact he did procs for each letter than trying to load a polygon file.

[elDoRado]

I appreciate it,
Like, what I had inmind was
cursor location, than 4 bars, 3x16 black,
and 2 verticals and 2 horizontals, and i would determine placing by mouse location

for ie: x, y <mouse locations

crosshair A- the top 1
xvalue = x
yvalue = y + 5 to move it 5 above.. see where i'm coming from? :/
I'm only a grade 11 student..

[evildaddy911]

if you want to make the crosshairs start at the center of the screen, then make a variable that stores the mouse's location when the game starts, then use mousewhere to detect where the mouse is in relation to the initial values:

Turing:

var initialx, nowy, nowx, relatedy, mx, my, mb : int mouse.where(mx, my, mb) initialx := mx initialy := my loop mousewhere(mx, my, mb) nowx:=initialx-mx nowy:=initialy-my drawcrosshairs(maxx div 2+nowx, maxy div 2+nowy) end loop

[Aange10]

Zren @ 13/11/2011, 11:10 pm wrote:

I was more annoyed at the fact he did procs for each letter than trying to load a polygon file.

What is that?

[Zren]

Aange10 @ Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:39 pm wrote:

Zren @ 13/11/2011, 11:10 pm wrote:

I was more annoyed at the fact he did procs for each letter than trying to load a polygon file.

What is that?

Turing:

procedure letterV (d : real) % O     tempsofie += 1     Othello (tempsofie, d + 150, 150, 150, 100, 100, 100, 55)     tempsofie += 1     initializeslantyface (tempsofie, d + 120, 180, 80, d + 120, 170, 80, d + 150, 130, 80, d + 150, 120, 80, 39)     tempsofie += 1     initializeslantyface (tempsofie, d + 150, 130, 80, d + 150, 120, 80, d + 180, 180, 80, d + 180, 170, 80, 39) end letterV

Like that... but for every character.

http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=29073

[Aange10]

I know what a procedure is, what's a polygon file?

[evildaddy911]

i think a better idea than the initialx,nowx would be

Turing:

var x,y,b:int proc crosshair (x, y : int)     drawoval (x, y, 10, 10, black)     drawline (x, y + 10, x, y - 10, black)     drawline (x - 10, y, x + 10, y, black) end crosshair crosshair (maxx div 2, maxy div 2) loop mousewhere (x,y,b) exit when x=maxx div 2 and y=maxy div 2 %stops program until the mouse is in the center of the play area end loop % main loop loop mousewhere(x,y,b) crosshair(x,y) end loop