Tutorial - RTS Style Camera Movement with Edge Scrolling

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I’ve finally finished another tutorial for an RTS Style Camera Movement with Edge Scrolling. Check it out.

If you have any questions feel free to ask. C&C’s welcome. :slight_smile:

Tutorial - RTS Style Camera Movement with Edge Scrolling

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Thanks mate. Do you have anymore RTS related stuff tutorials?

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I haven’t no. Is there anything in particular your wanting to know how to do? If I know how to do it (or figure it out in a few days) I might create a tutorial for it.

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I’m stuck at these atm:

  1. Creating clickable UI for an RTS game. With move attack and other commands.
  2. Creating a selection box
  3. Creating actual units that can be selected and controlled at once.
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Thanks Pattym ! It helped me a lot.

+1 Valkon :wink: I will be happy to have theses informations too.

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I’d really love to help you guys on this since i already did that, but my project wont open due to this bug. :frowning:

Although i can share the selection box macro if you want. It lets you draw the rectangle on to the HUD. See these screenshots:

1291×755 223 KB

1680×1050 230 KB

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For those that might be interest this is a teaser video for my next tutorial I’m working on. It builds on to this tutorial I did. :slight_smile:

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I am stuck on step 3.
I can’t wire the camera to the Start pin of the Find Look at Rotation node. I can’t figure out what the node is between the two.

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The node between the two is Get - Relative location. This is pulled from the camera node, which you ‘get’ from the Camera you setup in the components tab.

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That worked, thank you very much.

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I’m having trouble getting the edge scrolling to work. I triple checked the whole thing and still can’t figure it out. Any suggestions as to why the edge scrolling won’t work? Keyboard into works just fine and I can see the overlay.

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I had this problem too.
For me the problem was in the ‘GetHitboxType’ macro, in the ‘Parse Into Array’ node. The delimiter wasn’t splitting up the string. I deleted the coma and retyped it and it worked fine. I suspect I had a space in front or after the coma, and since there isn’t a space in the original string it wasn’t getting split up.

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Ok, I got it to work. I did what you suggested however it didn’t work the first time. After deleting it and creating the Parse into Array node couple of time it worked. Weird bug. Thanks.

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The Cam immediately makes a 180degree rotation on the z axis

had to set cam z angle to 180 to fix it