RTS Camera

I used GetCursorPos() in Hands to Quarters and that works well.

Walter O. Krawec Games
www.waltsgames.com

[edited by - Sam Gamgee on January 19, 2004 11:00:46 AM]

If it's a simple RTS game, GetMousePos is just fine.

Direct Input allows you to track direction of travel and such like, GetMousePos just gives you the screen coordinates of the cursor. For a simple RTS game you scan make do simply with a

if mousePos.x > screenWidth -5
then scroll right

if mousePos < 5
then scroll left

etc

[edited by - James Gregory on January 19, 2004 12:20:41 AM]

After playing C&C:Generals for more than two minutes with a dual monitor setup you''d get tired of trying to position the mouse precisely within that range on the left (or right side of the screen depending on your dual monitor setup) side of the screen.

Make sure you use the windows.left or windows.right coordinates when implementing your mouse move functionality... I''ve not written any code that works on a dual monitor setup (yet) but I''d be welcome to test for you

Rise of Nations, does handle the mouse positioning properly so it can be done.

Dave Dak Lozar Loeser

"Software Engineering is a race between the programmers, trying to make bigger and better fool-proof software, and the universe trying to make bigger fools. So far the Universe in winning."
--anonymous

Use the ClipCursor() (Win32Api)
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