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Matching projection head pitch to players in MotS
2003-01-26, 12:10 PM #1
I know hideki got this to work since he said he did using SetThingJointAngle(). But I can't get that verb to do anything. How do I make the force projections headpitch match the players? I can't figure it out!
2003-01-26, 12:34 PM #2
Cant you just fire a ghost projectile from the player, get the ghosts LVec. Then SetThingLook on the force projections?

(Cant you just fire a projectile as the force power and not worry about headpitch then?)

So you go:
Code: 
player_look=FireProjectile(player, ghost, -1, -1, '0.0 0.0 0.0', '0.0 0.0 0.0', 1.0, 0x20, 30, 10);
final_vec = VectorSet(VectorX(GetThingLVec(force_projection)), VectorY(GetThingLVec(force_projection)), VectorZ(GetThingLVec(player_look)));

SetThingLook(force_projection, final_vec);


Is that what you were wanted?
Team Battle.
2003-01-26, 12:37 PM #3
SetThingJointAngle corrisponds to the joints in the things puppet file. If it doesn't have a puppet file it won't work at all.
-Hell Raiser
2003-01-26, 1:59 PM #4
The headpitch moves relative to the player using this method but its still off, it seems to get stuck at some point along the way. Its weird.
2003-01-26, 3:52 PM #5
Is it possible to post the whole code?
Team Battle.
2003-01-27, 4:26 AM #6
The only relatent piece of code is in a pulse and is:

SetThingJointAngle(projection, 2, GetThingJointAngle(player, 2));

I'm just using the +projection template. It seems to work fine except that the waist bend is off, the player can bend down further than the projection.
2003-01-27, 4:36 AM #7
Bah! I'm so stupid. The solution was right in front of me. Instead of just setting the torso joint angle, all I had to do was set all of the joint angles! Now the model matches headpitch perfectly.
2003-01-27, 12:14 PM #8
Gogo trial and error. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/redface.gif]
-Hell Raiser
2003-01-27, 1:19 PM #9
My way would have worked if you had used

SetThingJointAngle(projection, 2, final_vec);

But your way works, and is much simplier. Good job.

(I wish jk had SetThingJointAngle too)
Team Battle.

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