It worked alright, Music right thru to it being like something you would see on your PlayStation or XBox in a way. But you must forgive me - I am not exactly a gamer, my son is the gamer and he has not tested it yet!

But as for learning...ermm I would say you are learning extremely well!

Best of luck into continuingly evolving your game!

PS From experience it has always been easy-ish, once you have learnt a lot of code (I'll say easy-ish loosely!) to get a game up and running from beginning to end, however making it work properly has always been harder and longer!)

Have fun!

---

TomDad. Tom is my son...and I'm his Dad. So we are TomDad Software.

Phrogram: (TomDad) Currently working together on a Pong Clock

Outside Phrogram: (Me) studying Java Tutorials

O.K, thanks much for the advice.

 About it being easy-ish... I have understood this from since the beginning of me making the game. The problem lies with the A.I of the computer and my inability to adjust his turning capabilities. When I first started writing the code which makes the computer turn towards you so it can fire at you, I realized that from the methods i was given for a 3D model there is absolutely no way to make a model turn towards another model by a fixed amount. Instead I had to make do with the computer rotating only a fraction of the arc to facing the target. In reality, using this method, the computer will never actually be 100% facing the target, making for very "unrealistic-looking" turns(since in one turn the computer will suddenly spin 90 degrees and in another will rotate only 1 degree based on how close he is to facing you) and either an extremely hard or extremely easy opponent in a dogfight. I chose the very easy option.

---

I wonder... do phrogs eat phlies????

This is an old topic but I am curious... does anybody have a solution to the problem I described in the above post? A new method I haven't found yet perhaps or a totally new way of doing it? This is the only thing that prevents my game form becoming extremely competitive and it is constantly bothering me that I cannot fix it.

---

I wonder... do phrogs eat phlies????

You can manually set rotation values using Model.Direction.<X/Y/Z>. Not sure, but I think they are local transforms ( relative to the model, not the world ).

The help file says that Model.Direction is a 3D Vector - the help file is wrong here. Whereas a 3D vector is a set of position values, Model.Direction is a set of 3 rotation values ( X, Y, Z ).

Using Model.Direction is not as simple as it should be. The angles are not measured in degrees ( or radians?? ). To set a rotation value, you need to multiply a degrees value by PiOver180:

Var PiOver180 as decimal = ( Math.Pi / 180 ) // This should be a global variable, so you only have to make the division once

Model.Direction.X = <degrees> * PiOver180

Not sure how to get the value in degrees though... Maybe Model.Direction.X / PiOver180?

Hope this helps.

I know this post is kind of old, but I was wondering... Could you put the source code of your game in a text file and upload it here?

---

(\ _/)
(- . -) This is bunneh. Copy and paste him to
(")-(") your signature, so that he may gain popularity and eventually rule the world

sorry for late response. I have been playing runescape too much lately =P very addicting. Anyway I could put the code here but it is 2000 lines so im not sure i should. Here is a link to download the program and source files though. I wish I could just make it an exe file but I'm not willing to invest the 30-40 odd dollars to do that since now I'm trying to move on to Java.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?neijvzhpb4v

---

I wonder... do phrogs eat phlies????

O.K. dragonrider, I read your post but im still confused. I don't fully understand what your trying to say but from what I do understand, it doesn't quite sound like what I want. Does doing what you saying turn the 3dModel x amount of degrees in z direction or is it something else...

---

I wonder... do phrogs eat phlies????