Parent Behavor W/O Actually Parenting

[reepblue]

Hello,

This is going to be hard to explain, but I need to parent a model to an entity that I want hidden in-order to get custom VR models to work correctly. The issue is tjhat when the parent is hidden, all of it's children are forced hidden as well. There is a rubber band effect when you just apply the the parent's matrix to the child's matrix every frame.

	// Update The model to the controller's matrix
	if (m_pControllerA != nil)
	{
		m_pControllerA->SetMatrix(VR::GetControllerModel(m_intControllerA)->GetMatrix());
	}

	if (m_pControllerB != nil)
	{
		m_pControllerB->SetMatrix(VR::GetControllerModel(m_intControllerB)->GetMatrix());
	}

When it is parented to the controller, the models are one-to-one and there is no delay.My question is how do I mimic the matrix updating without actually doing any parenting?

[reepblue]

I've decided to take a different direction with this. While It's still not 1:1, I now have a perk in doing it the way I am now. Still, would like some insight for future issues,

[gamecreator]

Couldn't you unhide a model, move/rotate it, get the child's position/rotation, apply that info to another entity, then hide the model again before rendering each frame?

[reepblue]

The child will always be hidden with the parent.

I feel any delay will result in the same effect.

[gamecreator]

Yeah, now that I think about it, I had a similar issue trying to position and rotate a camera behind a player.  I only solved that by parenting the camera (which I know is not an option for you).  One other possibility: have you tried calling world->Update() after the SetMatrix function?  Seems like Leadwerks needs to catch up on positioning and that might do it.

[SpiderPig]

I'm having the same issue, can't test this at the moment but maybe there's a way to update an entities matrix first?  Like entity->updatematrix()?

[Josh]

Apply an invisible material to the parent. It’s a blend setting. )

[reepblue]

38 minutes ago, Josh said:

Apply an invisible material to the parent. It’s a blend setting. )

Issue was applying a new material to the controllers crashes the app.

[Josh]

The controller may be NULL until it loads in. Make sure it exists before you apply the material.

[reepblue]

On 5/16/2019 at 7:41 AM, Josh said:

The controller may be NULL until it loads in. Make sure it exists before you apply the material.

I'll be sure to try again. If it's still crashing, I'll file a bug report.