Getting a direction from a x y z to a x y cord

#1 Here's what you want to do. First off you're going to want to get a direction vector from the mouse location x,y. This is done like so.
(mouseX - screenCenterX, mouseY-screenCenterY)
Ya may have to reverse those, I'm currently just gotten out of the shower and half dressed. Once you have that you can use it to set the players heading.

Play around with it, it's something like that. If you want to make the player move, then you'll have to cast a ray from the players position along that vector, and it'll tell you the location of the first thing it intersects. Then you can move to that position.

#2 wait - confused :/

could you put it in code more code terms, possibly some quick coding to show.

Not quite sure what you mean by doing that, what do I declare the variable as, etc.

#3 Take a read through this resource

It should help you understand how to get the mouse coords etc.

-Ron

#4 ok I figured out how to get the "worldPoint" from the object selection resource or something like that

example:

so that gives me the point in the world that the mouse is actually at - now how do I orient my my player? I have this code in the
void GameTSCtrl::onMouseMove(const GuiEvent &evt)

located in gameTSCtrl.cc file

#5 wait ... I dont think

removed ...

is going to get me what I need ... argh help! lol

#6 I would suggest removing those snippets of TGE code.
The reason being is this was posted in a non-SDK forum and Trevor "PointDestruction" doesn't own the source code, so your snippets of code do him no good.

#7 alright, code snippets removed - sorry bout that