Move Mouse With Active

[xmetalxthrasherx]

Okay, so here's my deal. I can't, for reasons I don't care to go into, use MMF2's built in scrolling. Instead I'm using the viewport object. My game is a top down shooter and the mouse is used to aim. So now imagine, without scrolling, if I'm not moving the mouse the player will always be facing, that is- aiming, toward to location of the cursor. I can move him left or right and he will always face the cursor regardless of his position. This is expected. If I use MMF2's built in scrolling the cursor, in effect, moves with the player. This is because the mouse follows the frame. This is also the effect I'm hoping to achieve.

I'm using the viewport, slightly zoomed in, for my scrolling. Maybe, I just have a mental block right now but I can't think of a way to make it so the cursor moves relatively to the player... this is to say that if the cursor is 100px from the player it will remain the distance from the player as he moves about UNLESS the user is moving the mouse. At which rate I'd need it to be positioned relatively to the player + the movement of the mouse.

I'm lost. Any ideas, anybody?

[Jacob]

Use a fake active for the mouse, and set it's position to X("Player")+xmouse

You might need to modify that to get an offset from the player, though.

[Eliyahu]

what would the purpose of that be? You can set the mouse position with the Mouse Object. The end.

-Eliyahu

[xmetalxthrasherx]

Thanks for the replies guys. However, Jacob, that's the part I'm having trouble with at this point. The offest, I'm shooting mental blanks. Eliyahu, The problem with the mouse object is that it only allows you to modify the Actual Position of the mouse relative to the screen and not the game's frame. So if my frame is smaller than the screen resolution or positions other than 0,0 than it would throw off the mouse's positioning via the mouse object.

[xmetalxthrasherx]

Actually, Jacob, your method works! BUT! If the mouse reaches 0,0 the crosshair I'm using wont move any more...since the mouse can't move past that position. So I'm still stuck.

[xmetalxthrasherx]

Still stuck on this, if the mouse object was able to return not just distance rolled by x and y distance rolled I could easily fix this. There's no extension which can currently do that, right? I'm starting to wonder if it just isn't possible though. This is very frustrating. Has nobody tried anything like this before? Heh, if it weren't for the surface object lagging behind when scrolling I wouldn't even need this.

Any ideas?

EDIT: SOLVED!
I was tempted for a second to reply yet again. But I didn't want an angry mob. Anyway, if anybody is curious as to how I solved this I simply used this:

X( "playerPawn" )+XMouse-512

The above line sets the X of the crosshair. A similar peice of code is used for the Y.

Basically, since my frame is 1024 wide I solve the problem of the mouse getting stuck at 0,0 by substracting half of the width of the view. I also take care to position the mouse in the center of the screen as well so I know my alignments are exact.

Sorry if the above isn't entirely coherent. I haven't slept all night. Thanks for the help everyone!

[Eliyahu]

For the MouseObject you can get the Frame's position, so if you wanted to move the Mouse to the right 1 pixel, it'd be Set Actual X to: X Left Frame + XMouse + 1

I don't understand your solution, but if it works, it works! You may want to consider that though ^^