Hi, I've been working on a simple scorched earth-like game for the last few days to help me learn CEL and python. I have some questions I haven't been able to answer so far. Here's a screenshot of the billboard interface some of my questions refer to: http://tfric.learnkanji.ca/dump/cannonController.jpg The arch is used for setting the cannon's angle and the bar is used for setting the shot's strength. The white arrow is a separate billboard that always points at the last place clicked along the bar. The interface is working but it's not as versatile as I'd like. Questions:
1. In the game I plan to have several cannons each with their own billboards for controls. To place them I need to find the screen coordinates of the center of the object. Is there a function somewhere that does this? If not can someone point me to the functions I will need to cast a ray from the object to the camera and find out where it intersects the near clipping plain? 2. So far I have been creating all my entities in Blender2CS and running the game from there. It is also working from celstart. Is there any way to use a debugger from either of these? I'm new to python and want to be able to examine what entities I have in memory so I don't have to ask here when I can't find them (see q. 3) 3. How do I get the billboard manager inside of a behaviour? I want to move the white arrow to a layer above the red/yellow/green bar in the interface. Currently most of the arrow is hidden. I have had no luck with the "layer" attribute in the b2cs interface or the functions listed in the API. 4. I plan to have multiple cannons with multiple controls for each player. All that will differ between them is the behaviour for AI players, the materials for all cannons and the names of the interface billboards for all cannons. Is there an easy way to duplicate an existing entity in the code or do I have to do it using blender? I would like to have arbitrarily many cannons so duplicating them in blender may be a hassle. That covers it, sorry for the rather long email. I hope some of you are still reading and if you are, thanks! I hope these questions aren't too noobish but I couldn't find any python examples covering them. TF ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Cel-main mailing list Cel-main@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cel-main
