look a weapon to the camera

[804]

I have a modell of a weapon and I want to lock it to the camera, so if the player walks and turns around the weapon moves, too.

[serengeor]

I have a modell of a weapon and I want to lock it to the camera, so if the player walks and turns around the weapon moves, too.

And what exactly does prevent you from doing that?

[804]

A first person-camera with weapon !
but i don't know how to pos or rot it to get the right effect.

A view like this:

[serengeor]

and as I said, what does prevent you from coding it? what problems have occured when you tried? did you even try..?

[804]

Yes i did a try!
the problem is that the weapon isn't at the same position as the camera, so i need some kind of circle animator

[hybrid]

I think you should revisit the point where parent and child nodes are explained. Child nodes will make every transformation the parent does. So no need to animate here, just position the weapon properly as a child. But I guess that a search for weapon an camera would have brought up many threads which explain this.

[804]

Ok thanks, i will take a Look!

[mongoose7]

Why not just render the weapon on top of the scene? The view of the weapon is purely notional.

[hendu]

It should go before the scene say AMD and Nvidia, since it covers a significant amount of area and can save drawing there

[Radikalizm]

It should go before the scene say AMD and Nvidia, since it covers a significant amount of area and can save drawing there

Yeah, better to render it in the actual scene pass instead of as an overlay, irrlicht automatically does depth sorting based on a node's distance to the camera, so it would always be rendered first

[804]

Any examples, i don't understand how this Gould work.

[Radikalizm]

Any examples, i don't understand how this Gould work.

Everything you need to do has been said, create your weapon node, add it as a child to the camera and position it so it looks correct on screen
There really is nothing more to it...

[804]

ISceneManager* smgr = device->getSceneManager();

ICameraSceneNode* Cam = smgr->addCameraSceneNode();

IAnimatedMeshSceneNode* weapon = smgr->addAnimatedMeshSceneNode(smgr->getMesh("media/gun.x"), Cam);

[hendu]

Yeah, better to render it in the actual scene pass instead of as an overlay, irrlicht automatically does depth sorting based on a node's distance to the camera, so it would always be rendered first

Only the transparent and light passes are sorted by distance, solids are by texture (at least in 1.7).

[Radikalizm]

Yeah, better to render it in the actual scene pass instead of as an overlay, irrlicht automatically does depth sorting based on a node's distance to the camera, so it would always be rendered first

Only the transparent and light passes are sorted by distance, solids are by texture (at least in 1.7).

Ah, did not realize that, haven't taken a look at the irrlicht source for a while now so it's all a bit rusty