question on using waypoints and an arrow to guide a player.

Questions & Answers
1

OK so in an effort to guide the player through this huge level I built. I built an arrow in 3ds max and set it to look at and point towards an empty game object. How can I get it to "point" to the next way point once the player reaches it. I need to guide the player towards a temple and using the arrow seems like the best way. I originally had it looking at the temple, however, it would lead the character over mountains that they can't climb. so I figured by setting several empty game objects as "way point" I could move the player in the right direction, but once you reach a way point I can't get it to move on to the next one.

2

You could put the empty gameobjects in an ordered list and everytime the player gets to an arrow, iterate to the next arrow in your list.

3

How about something like this?

private var waypoints : Array;

function Start() {
    waypoints = new Array();
    waypoints.length = 3;

    var waypoint1 = GameObject.Find("Waypoint1");
    var waypoint2 = GameObject.Find("Waypoint2");
    var waypoint3 = GameObject.Find("Waypoint3");

    waypoints[0] = waypoint1;
    waypoints[1] = waypoint2;
    waypoints[2] = waypoint3;
}

-- Glenn