Hi All,

I am working on a new project now, and this time I am going for a third-person view game. However, when I am playing in third-person view the character is not picking the ammo. Someone can help with this? I understand the soldier cannot pick weapons, this is why I am using a character with the Uzi already.

On the other hand, I would like to enable the reticle in the view. Looks like for that soldier (Camo Gunner) even if on the properties area the option is enabled with Yes, it is not being displayed testing the game.

Thank you in advance!

@DareESP
Walking simulators are pretty reasonable fair in GG under third person-- "out of the box" as
they like to say. Even then you gotta decide where the character is in relation to your map
and assets that interact with the player so you can trigger events.

So you can learn to script your own behavior as GG lua API has a pretty well defined set that
will enable most basic functionality. One day a forum mod told me not to promote scripting
especially in GG MAX, which to me taking that side is a rather confusing notion to argue on.
I don't agree with it even slightly.
The "free scripts" compendium is the place to browse. Everything won't be there, but if you
take the chance to study them, especially the simpler ones at first, that is the suggestion.
At some point you should be able to accomplish basic weapon pickup and firing, but it's a
rather complex scenario that will take some perseverance.

I say go and learn ALL the scripting you can and hope to. POSITIVE ++ vibes and best luck!

Can you point me to that.
Seems odd considering most encourage custom scripting to enhance your games and we have a script section on the forums exactly for this purpose and a feature in Max to add your own ?

I am curious about this as well...

It's an issue with the way third person handles angles and visibility (because the way pickups detect if you are in range is the distance and angle of the camera, and in third person the camera is further away and at an odd angle), you get the same issues with key pickups and doors.

I made a script to fix the issue ages ago when i made my isometric dungeon pack, attached are my fixed ammo, door, and key scripts ...

@Lee/Rick i have put this issue up on GitHUb, but if you want to use my updated scripts for classic then you are more than welcome to use the attached scripts.

I suspect that is more to do with the fact that not all Classic Lua functionality is present in MAX atm and they want to avoid having hundreds of spurious bug reports raised.

Lee's attempt at a visual programming system is in fact Lua scripts and any additions to it will likewise be Lua scripts so someone will still need to be writing Lua scripts!

Indeed and if you want the player to fly for example you would probably need custom scripting for that.
Lee's visual method could be fantastic and cover almost every normal function you need to do but its not going to make toast for you

Belidos thank you so much for the scripts! I will test them now. If they work that will be awesome for my new project. Appreciate also the time invested in explaining how the third person is working on GG Classic, I did not know that the issue is because of the camera distance. That is really good to know.

Thank you in advance!