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Posted: 29th Jun 2015 19:44
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Can I use a character created in the character creator as a 3rd person controllable character?
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Posted: 29th Jun 2015 19:58
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Quote: "Can I use a character created in the character creator as a 3rd person controllable character? "


It does not take a lot to use him as a placement but he wont work 100% yet ...
Hopefully it wont be long before we can though ..
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Posted: 29th Jun 2015 20:00 Edited at: 29th Jun 2015 20:00
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I cant get him to place on the start maker, like the wizard character does? how?
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Posted: 29th Jun 2015 20:08
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Just add this to your Characters .fpe file

isthirdperson = 1

Clear out the Dbo and Bin files and he will then connect ..
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Posted: 29th Jun 2015 20:21
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thanks synchro
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Posted: 29th Jun 2015 20:27
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still he wont connect do I need to change anything else?
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If you do all of the above it should work.

also this ONLY works if you have the start maker on the ground terrain. It doesn't seem to work on platforms or indoors.
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Posted: 29th Jun 2015 20:39
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don't seem to be working here. ??
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Posted: 29th Jun 2015 20:47 Edited at: 29th Jun 2015 21:29
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Quote: "Clear out the Dbo and Bin files and he will then connect .."


Did you do that step as well?
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yep , confused here
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I can see him in the level, but he wont walk, but the camera moves around the level and he is not attached to camera. Odd!
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Posted: 29th Jun 2015 21:28
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That sounds so very strange. I've actually personally never tested any characters from the character creation tool.

do you have ischaracter = 1 set in the fpe too right?

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yes I do.
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Posted: 29th Jun 2015 21:41
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Considering I was able to get the car model to work with the 3rd person there has to be a way to get the characters from the character creator to work too. I have yet to see anyone accomplish this with the characters from that tool however :/

I know though for when testing out 3d person i had to delete the startmarker (and player) entirely and place them again to see if they would work after making changes in the FPE. Sometimes have to start GG from scratch and deleting the bin files all over again.
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Posted: 29th Jun 2015 22:36
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Quote: "do you have ischaracter = 1 set in the fpe too right?"

But you need:
isthirdperson = 1

instead of:

ischaracter = 1

in your fpe file, thought.

Anyway does not have all the necessary anims, althought there is here a tuto to do so, but you need animer+mender, or any other 3ยช party tool.

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Posted: 30th Jun 2015 00:14 Edited at: 30th Jun 2015 00:16
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Oh I didn't know that I've been using both for 3rd person. Seemed to not work for unless i had both 3rdperson and ischaracter set to 1.
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Posted: 30th Jun 2015 01:09
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Yes both of those will need to be present and set to 1.
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Posted: 30th Jun 2015 18:52
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still not working here, I think there should be a "Make Third Person" button in the character editor to automatically write a working fpe file.
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Posted: 30th Jun 2015 19:40
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You are right Mike, I've take a most accurate look to wizard's fpe file.

Quote: "I can see him in the level, but he wont walk, but the camera moves around the level and he is not attached to camera. Odd!"

I had readed here something like this before, I thought

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Posted: 1st Jul 2015 20:14 Edited at: 1st Jul 2015 20:20
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Technically I think the Character Creation Tool should automatically add the 3rdperson line into the FPE it generates, by default and if a character is not placed on the start marker it then references its aimain script.

If GG is "the easy game maker" they should make this happen by default so nobody has to poke around with the FPE files.
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Hi Tarkus1971 I made a character in the Character Creation Tool and added the proper lines and values and it works fine. Noticed they added a melee attack to them (punching).
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Posted: 1st Jul 2015 20:39 Edited at: 1st Jul 2015 20:40
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Quote: "If GG is "the easy game maker" they should make this happen by default so nobody has to poke around with the FPE files."


That's because at the moment your not really supposed to poke around with it
When CC Characters are 100% third person compatible then that's exactly how they will come off the assembly line .... so to speak
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Indeed, I was going to allow the third person control system to handle ANY character but the ramifications of the subsequent 'test every character' was too great for the release schedule. I will DEFINITELY be looking at it again when we do the AI work (if it gets voted in).

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