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Any way to get the players current pos?

by Dan - · in Torque Game Engine · 08/29/2004 (10:43 am) · 3 replies

I want to have some engine code that acts differently depending how close the player is. The problem is that I am unable to "find" the player. I tried:
gClientSceneGraph->getCurrCameraPosition() - Always returns 0,0,0
gClientSceneGraph->getBaseCameraPosition() which seems to vary depending on the direction you are looking instead of the pos.

Anyone have any ideas how to get the players current position?

Thank you,
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Associate Ian Omroth Hardingham
Mode 7 Games
#1
08/29/2004 (11:00 am)
Mm... you should be looking at the Player class, Player::getPosition especially, works in script as well as c.

Or are you looking for something specific to the camera? Your post isn't quite clear.

Ian

Torque Owner Dan -
#2
08/29/2004 (11:16 am)
Ian,

What I am looking for is where the player is on the map. Player::getPosition is not a globally available function with in the engine. I was hoping to not make a global instace of the players location for use. I figured it had to already exist somewhere. Thats why I was heading down the route of gClientSceneGraph. You can get lights, the sky and a bunch of other neat things from it.

Why do I want to know where the player is? I have some shadow code and I figured why bother even looking at the render of the shadow if the player is too far from the object to really notice the shadow.

So my thought was:
if distance(CurrentObjectThatIAmShadowingLocation to PlayerLocation) > SomeAmount
    Return
  else
    Render Shadow

After stating that, what I am really looking for is the distance from the current instance of an object to the player.

Clearer? Any words of wisdom?

Torque Owner Dan -
#3
08/29/2004 (6:12 pm)
Thanks to a smart cookie on IRC who pointed me down a new path I have come up with the following code... or rather discovered the following code:
GameConnection* conn = GameConnection::getLocalClientConnection();
   if (!conn)
      return; 
   conn->getControlObject();
   ShapeBase* controlObj = conn->getControlObject();
   if (!controlObj)
      return;
   Point3F pos = getPosition();
   VectorF diff = controlObj->getPosition() - pos;

I did have to add #include "game/gameConnection.h" which I am not too happy about.

I am also not sure I get the performance increase I had hoped for but its semi ok right now.

Of course open to engine wizards to point out my ignorance or issues with the solution above.

Thank you,