Entity direction to point

[f13rce]

Ok, I'm trying to make an enemy looking at the player. I made a Vec3 named 'botrotation' and made them standard 0.

In the while function I assigned this piece of code:

 

botrotation.Y=asin((camerapos.Y)/(EntityDistance(BasicBot,player)))); //Looking up and down
botrotation.Z=acos((playerpos.Z-botpos.Z)/(EntityDistance(BasicBot,player))); //Looking left and right
PositionEntity(BotModel,Vec3(botpos.X,botpos.Y,botpos.Z)); //Making sure the model is at its position
botpos=EntityPosition(BasicBot);
RotateEntity(BotModel,botrotation);
RotateEntity(BasicBot,botrotation);

 

The BotModel is the character model of the bot.

BasicBot is the bot itself.

 

When I mess around with this code then either the model is just completely gone (not even under the ground or so),

or it is just steady and doesn't move at all.

 

So here is my question: How do I make the enemy look at me?

 

Cheers,

 

Ivar/Evayr

[Marleys Ghost]

How do I make the enemy look at me?

 

PointEntity ?

[f13rce]

PointEntity ?

 

*Sigh* I feel so silly.. lol.

It worked, thanks.

[Sanctus]

Yes but take in account that if the player and the enemy are at different heights then the enemy would be rotated up or down.

I think you want this only on the Y axis in which case you can use ATan2(playery-enemyy,playerx-playerx) (not sure if this command exists in leadwerks but it's in math.h anyway)

[f13rce]

In this code

PointEntity(BotBasic,cam,botrotation.X,botrotation.Y,botrotation.Z);

I noticed you only have to say "botrotation.Y=0" and it won't turn up

[macklebee]

In this code

PointEntity(BotBasic,cam,botrotation.X,botrotation.Y,botrotation.Z);

I noticed you only have to say "botrotation.Y=0" and it won't turn up

 

has the pointentity command changed parameters? I thought it was:

PointEntity( TEntity entity1, TEntity entity2, int axis=3, flt rate=1, flt roll=0 )