set position of FPS-cam

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:53 pm

Hi,
I addet a FPS-cam to the Q3-map from the Irrlicht's media folder.
If I set the cam's position before I add the CollisionResponseAnimator, the cam's position is OK.
But If I set the cam's position after I add the CollisionResponseAnimator, the cam's position is wrong.
This seems to depand on the actual cam's position...
If I stand at different positions and set the position new, the cam will be set to a another position (not that I told the cam to set to).
But also there is a region, where the cam will be set to the right position...

What's wrong with it and how can I resolve this ???

thx, Acki

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 1:02 am

Now I know what the problem is.
It seems that if the collisionRespons is active the camera's position can't be set to a position where the cam has to move trough a wall !!!
Is there a way to disable the collision response of the cam ???

CU, Acki

Asterisk Man · Post by **Asterisk Man** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 4:07 am

ICameraSceneNode *->removeAnimator(ISceneNodeAnimator *);

this should work, provided you haven't dropped the animator pointer, although im not sure if it works even after that, as I haven't tried it.

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:28 pm

Well, I tried this allready - it didn't work...

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:00 am

Well, I got a solution...
But it seems not to be the very best...

1. I copy the pointer from the cam to a temporary ICameraSceneNode*
2. I create a new cam and store the pointer
3. I position the new cam
4. I set the colision response animator to the new cam
5. I set the new cam as active
6. I remove the old cam (the temporary)

If I don't use the temp cam, the prog crashes, because without a cam Irrlicht can't render anything and breaks down...

Any better ideas ???

CU, Acki

thesmileman · Post by **thesmileman** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:35 am

are you using setPosition or setAbsolutePosition?

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 4:04 pm

Well, I can't use a function that doesn' exist !!!
Do you ????

CU, Acki

thesmileman · Post by **thesmileman** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 9:17 pm

Sorry I F'ed up I ment when you check the position are you using getPosition or getAbsolutePosition()

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 9:44 pm

Why should I check the position of the FPS cam, because I can see that it's not on the right position ???

It doesn't matter to me what position the cam is at, if it's at the wrong pos...

Well, for my solution I get the position with getPosition() - because the cam is no child of anything and so getPosition() and getAbsolutePosition() gives me the same results...