placing terrain where jouse clicks

[Oreo]

Sorry about all my questions but I really want help on these things. How do i make it so that like in a level editor if i click a terrain type and i click anywhere, and it places the terrain, how do i do that?

To make it simpler im making a game, and you can place boxes or other sorts of objects, and you do this to bounce a little ball and have fun with it. I want it so that if a click a button, lets say its related to a box, i can click and place a box where ever i want to place it, then when im done i click a button so that if i click again it doesn't place the object, or in my little example, my box.

[Ravenius]

The easiest way would be to do the following:

+mouse right button is clicked
-create box at 0,0 from invisible mouse.

There, the "invisible mouse" would be an active object that is set to invisible at the start of frame and is always set to Xmouse and Ymouse, so it follows the mouse cursor. If you can't figure it out, you could post your game's MFA file (the code) to the File Archive and I can put it in your game.

[scdlsam]

I prefer:

+User clicks with Left Button
-Create Terrain at (0,0) [[Anywhere really]]
-Set Terrain X Position to XMouse
-Set Terrain Y Position to YMouse

It'll probably save you a processor cycle or two.

[Ravenius]

Yes, that sounds like a better idea. Simpler, too.

[Oreo]

Thank you both for the help! :grin:

- Oreo