Aphrodite

Ahhh I see, Paste Object to canvas and load it using the Paster.imageURL and it kind of "Crops" the area...

Thanks my friend, you saved my life.

> Hi everyone,

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> I personally believe that the official snapshot to canvas system expression should be extended by giving us the option to snapshot a certain area of the canvas.

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> For example, you could have a system action -> Snapshot canvas -> Location of snapshot is X1, Y1 and X2 Y2 giving us a box area of which the canvas will be snapshot.

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> I would custom make a plugin myself, but I do not have the knowledge of Javascript to do that. I know there is a plugin for this right now, called c2i or Canvas 2 Image here: https://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=153&t=68493&p=581825&hilit=canvas2image#p581825

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> it works, however this plugin snapshot area is way inaccurate, I give coordinates of snapshot and it doesn't line up to the coordinates given very well, and accuracy is very important in my app.

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> If someone is willing to create the plugin, I would be happy to pay for it.

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> Thanks.

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GameThirsty

I think the paster plugin can do what you want currently :

you just paste the area and layers you want to screenshot, than you get the dataURI of it.

Aphrodite

Interesting, I came across this plugin before, so basically I just "paste" an area which I want to screenshot, and retrieve the dataURL out of it? So its kind of like a "fake" snapshot/ crop?

Hi everyone,

I personally believe that the official snapshot to canvas system expression should be extended by giving us the option to snapshot a certain area of the canvas.

For example, you could have a system action -> Snapshot canvas -> Location of snapshot is X1, Y1 and X2 Y2 giving us a box area of which the canvas will be snapshot.

I would custom make a plugin myself, but I do not have the knowledge of Javascript to do that. I know there is a plugin for this right now, called c2i or Canvas 2 Image here: https://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=153&t=68493&p=581825&hilit=canvas2image#p581825

it works, however this plugin snapshot area is way inaccurate, I give coordinates of snapshot and it doesn't line up to the coordinates given very well, and accuracy is very important in my app.

If someone is willing to create the plugin, I would be happy to pay for it.

Thanks.

"the sub plugin will make these things easier, but right now it's easy to get things to work like regular construct by linking them to a sprite dummy, and associating the id of the 3D object to the sprite by saving q3d.idlast in a variable when you create the object. from there you can do whatever you want to make them "link". i don't know if this is clear but ill make an example if you want some help."

QuaziGNRLnose

I don't quite get what you mean either. Whenever you have the time to show us that would be cool to see.

I got the camera to work! Sort of, though you have to use arrow keys to look around. I would prefer mouse movement look around, but here you all go! First person view look around. I'll see what I can do for mouse look around also.

https://googledrive.com/host/0B8m5DDRra ... 1fUWtfSW8/

QuaziGNRLnose

Thats what I was guessing, right now I am following some three.js FPS movement tutorials, and looking at how they handle the camera on their end in calculations and see if I can get the camera to move right for now.

But thank you for adding behaviors in the future it will help a ton!

> First steps into a fps inside Q3D, still need lots of stuff added, its VERY limited right now ill mess around and see what I can get done with the little info we got now.

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> Still needs:

> Freely move camera

> Fire bullets

> Freely move walking/ running

> Enemies spawn

> Shoot at and kill enemies

> Possibly some form of enemy AI?

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> https://googledrive.com/host/0B8m5DDRra ... lpdy1qcDg/

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can modfy some code and the use drag and drop plugin

combinding plugins with like pin to imagepoint to pinhandler and sprite to arrowkey move drag up down right left , pinning to 8 directions and pathfinding the posibleties are endless ,

gun pin to q3D or pinhandler or set position to invisible imagepoint pinhandler

using creative try and fail ..

Yeah I still have some things up my sleeve to get the ball rolling here, hopefully I can make the camera just the way I like it thats what I have been struggling on the most.

federer365

It took me only like a half hour, its only one imported model, the ground is just a cube basic model with some texture of grass, the building is just one basic texture to see the lighting, and the lighting appears dark because I only have one point light with low intensity.

This works only with WebGL and HTML 5. Mobile deices that support WebGL can use this yes, I tested it on a Samsung Galaxy s5 with a solid 58 fps. However that phone is new and quite powerful. Older devices I am not sure what it will do. There isn't much going on in the scene, so once you start adding more things I am skeptical if mobile will run it efficiently or not.

First steps into a fps inside Q3D, still need lots of stuff added, its VERY limited right now ill mess around and see what I can get done with the little info we got now.

Still needs:

Freely move camera

Fire bullets

Freely move walking/ running

Enemies spawn

Shoot at and kill enemies

Possibly some form of enemy AI?

https://googledrive.com/host/0B8m5DDRra ... lpdy1qcDg/

TiAm

i am trying to do a fps demo, just cant grasp the first-person-view camera motion yet, I have the up/down motion I just cant find out how to do left/right

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> Also, how can I use multiple textures on an object? For example, most buildings and people have textures for certain aspects of the model

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Texturing should be done at the mesh level, with UV's exported as part of the .obj file. That's the way I did it in the tiny tank demo, and the way it should be done for any game. A single .obj mesh can be comprised of many geometric primitives, all sharing the same texture.

You need to UV unwrap your mesh, then create a texture which contains any graphics you want (all in the same image), then map the individual polygons to the respective areas on the texture map. This can be done in most 3D programs. (I recommend blender, it's free) Alternatively, you can create multi-part objects on the Q3D level (instead of the mesh level), which each have their own materials. This isn't optimal though (and should not be done in any real game): it's highly recommended to bake as much geometry as you can into single meshes, to have minimal separate objects on the Q3D level, to minimize cpu bottlenecking.

Thank you! Ill take that advice.

What should I do for first person view? I am confused on how I can make the camera look left or right with the mouse, I have up and down working

Sorry for all of the questions, but how is events trigger in 3d space? Like how Unity has a "trigger" where you can have a hidden or fake object that detects collision and can trigger events.

> Is it possible to make a third person perspective yet?

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The tiny tank demo is already in third person!

I meant to say first, I got the camera looking up and down, I just cant seem to grasp it side to side.

I also have the camera moving forward, backward and side to side or strife

Also, how can I use multiple textures on an object? For example, most buildings and people have textures for certain aspects of the model

Thank you

Is it possible to make a third person perspective yet?