Bullets like These

PureOwnage

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I would love to make bullets like in this video.

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However, I don't know where to get started.. If you would help me, this would be helpful in two of my projects.. The problem is that in the video, you click a point and the marine shoots there. But if it misses, it explodes, if it doesn't it collides with the unit. I can't get that too work. Any help?
 

Cookiemaster

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To do this, you would obviously need to implement some sort of hit detection.

As long as there are a low amount of enemies, you could do this by checking if any enemy unit is in x range of any bullet every 1/x seconds, and add something to see how much lifetime the bullet has left.

If you start to make things with a lot of objects, you will have to implement a sort of hit detection, heavily optimized, to prevent lagg.

Like I have in my map: http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthread.php?t=149665
Instead of checking the distance between every unit and your unit, I only check the units the distance of the units close to me.
I achieve this by "making" a grid, and giving a list of units to every single square. Unlike the hit detection and movement, the list is not updated every 1/32th second, but every 1/8th second to reduce lagg. (GREATLY)
Instead of checking all units for collision, I check the units from my grid location +1~-1 on both x and y axis, which cuts away checking another possibly 90 units for checking.
 

Renendaru

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He used the baneling effect to damage. o.o
 

PureOwnage

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Heh, I just played it, you can hear the sound of banelings dying when the bullet dies.
 

BlowingKush

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Jesus Christ. This is the best custom game ive played so far. Awesome.


Once again, to bad Blizzard fucked us over and won't allow mouse support to move a unit (only a camera).

WSAD is only fun for so long
 

Renendaru

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Once again, to bad Blizzard fucked us over and won't allow mouse support to move a unit (only a camera).

WSAD is only fun for so long

This is the beta, calm down please. And, have you ever seen a game in its closed beta, having full functionality? If you have, that game does not evolve, therefore does not need to be brought up.
 

BlowingKush

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It's hard not to get angry when the obvious is unimplemented.

i want the X,Y coordinates of the damn mouse cursor.

Please.
 

PureOwnage

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It's hard not to get angry when the obvious is unimplemented.

i want the X,Y coordinates of the damn mouse cursor.

Please.
I agree, Warcraft 3 could do that with trackables but SC2 can't? Yeah because we're going to click everytime we need to know the X and Y of the mouse.
 

Renendaru

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If you had paid attention in the editor preview, in the Starcraft: Ghost game, he said they'd add support for aiming with the mouse. It's obvious what that means, mouse tracking will be here.
 

BlowingKush

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I do not like to pay attention.

I would rather rage over something that has already been addressed.
 

chanta45

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Personally I think we were lucky to get the editor with beta ^_^ They did say they were adding mouselook support, I believe the editor will evolve just as much as the regular game throughout the rest of beta.

I'd say a hearty amount of people are getting beta just for custom games/editor, hopefully they know their audience and will cater to it.
 

sLsIDK

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Personally I think we were lucky to get the editor with beta ^_^ They did say they were adding mouselook support, I believe the editor will evolve just as much as the regular game throughout the rest of beta.

I'd say a hearty amount of people are getting beta just for custom games/editor, hopefully they know their audience and will cater to it.
Yep, I'm getting SC2 just for the editor, I even got the beta from a friend because I heard the editor would be coming out in the beta.
 
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