How I change the initial rotation of my ship?

[wdna]

I found a free model I can play with of nice quality.

I have the following situation:

 

 

Like you can see the models initial rotation is wrong, it should be facing the direction of brush.

This code can fix the rotation for me:

ship->SetRotation(90,90,0, true);

 

But then I have issue with ship movement:

 

if(window->KeyDown(Key::A)) {
 ship->Move(-move_speed,0,0);
}
if(window->KeyDown(Key:)) {
 ship->Move(move_speed,0,0);
}
if(window->KeyDown(Key::S)) {
 ship->Move(0,0,-move_speed);
}
if(window->KeyDown(Key::W)) {
 ship->Move(0,0,move_speed);
}

 

Movement would be in the wrong then directions. I could also adjust this but obviously it's not the right way. I am aware you can rotate it in some 3D software like blender, but I'm trying to avoid it right now.

 

and generally what would be best practice for such cases?

[AggrorJorn]

Set the movement to global instead of local. Then everything should work just fine.

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/documentation/_/command-reference/entity/entitymove-r165

[Josh]

You could create a pivot entity, then call Entity::SetParent() to parent the ship to the pivot, and then call your commands on the pivot. That would basically fix the model's orientation to be the way you want.

[wdna]

Thanks! This worked for me!

 

ship = Model::Load("Models/Ship/dark_fighter_6.mdl");
ship->SetPosition(0,4,0);
shipPivot = Pivot::Create();
ship->SetParent(shipPivot);
ship->SetRotation(90,90,0, true);

...

if(window->KeyDown(Key::A)) {
   shipPivot->Move(-move_speed,0,0);
}

...

 

There's some pattern to handle this in more global manner?

Edited May 22, 2014 by wdna

[Rick]

Bring it into a modeling package and export it rotated correctly. I used to do this in UU3D. I'm sure there are free options.

[gamecreator]

I think rotate and move commands in the model editor, below scale, would come in really handy.

 

Rotate would rotate the model around its origin/anchor, whether that's at the bottom of the feet or middle of the model or wherever.

Move would move the model relative to the origin/anchor.