Animation freezes when camera is close.

[AggrorJorn]

I have this animation in the editor which seems to be working fine. However when you fly close towards it, the animation freezes. When I fly away with the camera the animation continues. This also happens when I run the fpscontroller.lua.

 

Anybody have an idea why this is? This is the lua file:

require("scripts/class")

local class=CreateClass(...)


function class:CreateObject(model)
local object=self.super:CreateObject(model)



function object:Render()
	frame = (AppTime()/32.0) % (60-0) + 1
	model:Animate( frame, 1,0, 1 )		
end

function object:Free(model)
	self.super:Free()
end

end

[Josh]

Because the model AABB doesn't encompass the whole object, so the render function gets skipped when you are close.

 

BTW, using the Render function like this will result in an enormous speed increase, because you can have tons of offscreen characters that don't have to be animated.

[AggrorJorn]

Is this because of the collision type?

[Josh]

No, the model bounding box has nothing to do with the collision type.

 

Add some dummy vertices to make the mesh larger so it will make a bounding box big enough to contain all the mesh when animated.

[AggrorJorn]

perfect. It's working now.

[VicToMeyeZR]

I am wondering. Is this a normal way to do this. I have seen most games that do still animate no matter how close you are. Is this because they still do animation weather you see them or not?