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Author:	Mr_Tom	Submitted:	25th February, 2009	Favourites:	0
Genre:	Tutorial	Downloads:	689
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Edited By Mr_Tom on 9/13/2009

Edited By Mr_Tom on 2/25/2009

Edited By Mr_Tom on 2/25/2009

This is a pack of 5 tutorials/examples of features often found in RTS games, but not exclusively.

These are things I have learnt how to do in order to make an RTS game which i am currently working on.

These tutorials show the following:

Basic pathfinding: How to make a single active object navigate a path around obstacles

Drag and drop objects: How to drag and drop objects without the object snapping to the mouse position.

Selection box: A selection box much like those found in RTS's or operating systems. This one has 4 solid sides, not just the corners or a big translucent box.

Mini-maps: Use fast loops to create a mini-map showing the locations of units. This one works regardless of the frame size or shape as well as the maps own proportions.

Advanced Pathfinding: The final tutorial is really just an example of the foundations of an RTS engine. In it you can select units in various different ways and order them to move. Its primary function is to show how to use the APF to achieve pathfinding for duplicate instances of the same active object.

Some of the examples require the 'Advanced Pathfinding Extension' by Grey Hill. Available here:

http://www.clickteam.info/greyhill/rAPF1.002/APFSetup.exe

Review This Download

http://www.filefront.com/14525049/RTS_Tutorials.zip (81 kkb )

Posted by sanx

26th February, 2009

The minimap didnt work!

Posted by Mr_Tom

26th February, 2009

yes it did.

Posted by 3kliksphilip

26th February, 2009

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Sanx, be more descriptive. I loaded it up and it worked straight away.

Posted by 3kliksphilip

27th February, 2009

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Can I just say that these tutorials are really useful. I feel you shouldn't have included the basic pathfinding, it's way too good to share. But I'm going to use it any way.

(Most games on this site wouldn't be able to use it any way)

Posted by Mr_Tom

27th February, 2009

actually i just noticed, in the basic pathfinding one, it sometimes refers to a 'leader'. That is left over annotation from a previous version of it. If you just interpret 'leader' as 'unit' then it's the same.

Posted by 3kliksphilip

28th February, 2009

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I also see that there's a section at the bottom of the event editor called 'poo'

Posted by Mr_Tom

28th February, 2009

hahaha, that was probably a temporary section with counters in that was later deleted... except the title.

Posted by Eternal Man [EE]

3rd March, 2009

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"Can I just say that these tutorials are really useful. I feel you shouldn't have included the basic pathfinding, it's way too good to share."

FOO!
Ranting on about no community spirit in one section, then making remarks like this in another.
Shut up FOO! And try to learn something from this good FOO concerning what is good behaviour and what's E-LI-TIST!
I pity the FOO who's E-LI-TIST!
I PITY THE FOO!

It's great of Mr TOM to share this with the community. It's stuff LIKE DAT that raises the quality of both the community and the games therein.

Posted by bigredron

5th March, 2009