I like the Idea of creating a top-down shooter with gameguru. Now that I comb through the forum I saw some problems and I want to post a list of them.
Maybe we can talk about the problems and how to fix them. I tried around in gg and I really want to do a game like that but there are some issues obviously:

- Guns and ammo can not be picked up when in 3rd person mode.
- The Gun only makes damage where the crosshair points at. "no real projectiles fired"
- I think the jump animation is not a good choice. It may look good when vaulting over some sandbags, but that's most likely not the case.
- There is no muzzle flash!
- No reload animations

My suggestions:

- make the crosshair like a cursor! Let the player shoot anywhere he wants.
- Overhaul the bullet system. This sure sounds like a lot of work but It would be really cool.
- Improve some animations.

Did I forget something? Let me know! I want to make this thread useful for anyone who wants to create a top down game like me.

If you know more issues or how to solve them, please post below! I noticed that the top down stuff is really scattered around in the forum and I want to collect all info we have here

That is simply because for some reason it has been coded out in lua.

If you remove the "and g_PlayerThirdPerson==0" it should work okay. Technically anyway, unless there's some hard coding at play I'm not aware of.

The rest are about right, more work will be needed here when it is updated.

Ah okay! What's the name of the script I have to edit then?

weapon.lua and ammo.lua if i remeber correctly

As to the jumping, that's entirely model related, the animations aren't created/controlled by gameguru, they're built into the models, so you're stuck with whatever animation the character model has. If you were to add your won characters you could use a different animation.

If i remember right i think (cant get to GG to check at the moment), but don't quote me on it, there is more than one jump animation on the stock solder animations, so you should be able to change which one it uses. If you look in the characters folder in entitybank there should be a text file with a list of all the animations and their frames on it, if there's another jump on the list you just have to transcribe the frame numbers over into the characters .fpe file in place of the current jump animation frames (at the bottom of the .fpe should be a list, each entry starting with csi_ it's the numbers there you need to change).

Belidos is correct about the script names. An easy way to find the script in general though is to check out the items properties. The script is always listed there, so you can find whichever script you need to edit. You may have custom items that have different scripts attached for instance.

alright, thank you so far



edit: okay so I deleted and I can pick up weapons. The only thing is that the weapon can't be changed. Not with T (to replace) nor with scrolling...
It just won't let me use another weapon.

Yesterday I tried around and I just placed a zombie on the player marker.^^ I think it's interesting to play as a zombie. Quite funny
What do you think of it? Would this be a great game Idea?

Stumbling Dead: The Game

ahaha yeah

Reminds me of a vampire attacking with claws. Hmmmm

It comes because the g_PlayerController==0.
g_PlayerController is a global var, but I can't see where it takes their values, who tell it is equal to 0 or 1? maybe hardcoded.



if you remove g_PlayerController from the equation, you must likely can to replace weapons with T. Thought.

3com

weve already told him that 3com, ges saying weapons dont change with T after he takes that out

Yah, I've tried and soldier does not change weapon, even with the code modified.

3com

I wonder if a switch weapon lua works, haven't a clue how to do it though so cant test.

I have not that script, where it sits? can't find in my scriptbank folder.

3com

I'm not talking about a script, I'm talking about the lua commands, hence why I said I have no idea how to write it

Hmm maybe Lee can help us with that. Or someone else of the community with good scripting knowledge. I'm sure there is a solution to this.

I tried many options during beta testing without success. Lee has it on his list I think - it's mentioned in the voting list reset thread.

Cheers.

I think 3rd person in not intended to be player, or something different than wizard, so far. They lack many things to be a player.
Teorically he takes/replace the weapon, but phisycally does not. As pointed above not shot sound, not muzzle flash, not reload animations .

These soldier born to be soldier, and soldier doesn't reload/takes/replace weapom etc, so why animated them to do these things.
And there is not script that can fix this.
I stop wotking on soldier behavior, since this has not only to do with code, but other factors like phisycs sistem, than you can't change with merely scripts.

3com