LE3 : object in front of camera

[YouGroove]

Well i use teh script free camera look.

I would need to place in front of camera some object, does anyoen knows how ot program that ?

because we have camera position and rotation already.

 

Tried that : but it don't runs and says SetPosition is not good ?

 

function Script:Render()

self.entity:SetPosition(self.pivot:GetPosition(true),true)

deltaPosx = self.pivot.x

deltaPosy = self.pivot.y

deltaPosz = self.pivot.z

launcher:SetPosition(deltaPosx,deltaPosy,deltaPosz,true)

end

[Andy Gilbert]

How have you referred launcher? As a guess you should be using self.launcher.

 

Andy

[YouGroove]

Nope weapons will have to be dynamic.

 

The camera have "freelook" script, i just added weapons management in it for the moment.

 

The launcher is loaded by code, and declared as globam variable.

 

function Script:Start()

launcher = Model:Load("Models/Characters/test/launcher.mdl")

 

Then it is rotated as camera is rotated

function Script:UpdatePhysics()

...

...

camerarotation.x = camerarotation.x+self.mousespeed.y*self.lookspeed

camerarotation.y = camerarotation.y+self.mousespeed.x*self.lookspeed

self.entity:SetRotation(camerarotation)

launcher:SetRotation(camerarotation)

 

 

 

 

Finally i tried to move it in front of camera : but compilation fails

function Script:Render()

self.entity:SetPosition(self.pivot:GetPosition(true),true)

deltaPosx = self.pivot.x

deltaPosy = self.pivot.y

deltaPosz = self.pivot.z

launcher:SetPosition(deltaPosx,deltaPosx,deltaPosx )

end

 

 

I guess, it's another maths that are needed to place some object in front of camera like using the normal vector of camera direction.

[Andy Gilbert]

Well as you can see in my video I have an fps style gun attacted to the camera or self character. I didn't make this global as I have developed a weapon management for the main character only (yourself) so my weapons are completely self controlled. As in I have a script for each weapon as each weapon is different and has many different properties. And these are then attached to the relative weapon model that can be picked up by the main character.

 

I didn't have to use any normals of the camera. Using parenting is the way I do it.

 

Andy

[YouGroove]

Thanks i'll try that way of parenting function.

Do you have a character in FPS view ? abd attach weapons to it ?