Attaching weapon

[Sigutis]

I am trying to attach weapon to a characters hand.
So I have this ISceneNode sword and IAnimatedMeshSceneNode node (character)
Both are x format
Obviously I need to make node hold the sword
As far as I figured out I did this in my init fuction, after loading meshes

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	ISceneNode hand = node->getJointNode("Bone10");
		hand->addChild(sword);

Eventually it compiles fine but I still cant see no sword.I assume I have to do something in the main loop. Its my first experience with bones though.

[JP]

Can you show your code for loading the sword?

Try sword->setPosition(vector3df(0,0,0); and see if that helps. Also, can you see the sword if you don't parent it to the hand? Maybe it's scaled really small or really big.

[Sigutis]

After copying sword loading code I noticed that

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sword = smgr->addAnimatedMeshSceneNode( mesh_sword);

was missing
now I can see it. it follows the hand but its in wrong angle and position. Do you think I should just rotate/reposition it manually until I get it right?

[Mag-got]

Yes. Irrlicht does not read your mind and set the rotation automatically.

[JP]

Hehe if only it did!

Remember that setPosition should take a position relative to the parent when it's made a child.

[rogerborg]

Yes. Irrlicht does not read your mind and set the rotation automatically.

I hear the latest version of Ogre does that though.

[B@z]

you have to rotate this in the model.
in the player model, the line from "bone10" and the "bone 11" will be the angle of the sword.
and then, in the sword's model, you have to put it into 0,0,0, and rotate to 0,0,0

and it will be cool xD

[JP]

Not if he doesn't have a bone 11 :p

Nor does he need one though, just bone 10 will do the trick.

[Sigutis]

Works like charm now. Thanks everyone

[B@z]

yeah, but for example for a sword, it's hard to do it with just one bone xD
because it's hard to animate