Rotation issues

#1 Aren't there any ideas? GG staff? Do I have to read the code (with both eyes (-; ) and guess what's wrong?
I can't understand such a large codebase, neither in 2 years. Please, somebody that inderstood the source help me.

Bye, Thc.
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#2 I'm a little unclear what code you're looking at here, or what your test code is, or even how the numbers relate. Can you give a little more detail, or maybe an example of where this is breaking in the engine?

Bear in mind that there are many ways of representing the same rotation.

#3 First of all, thanks for your reply: is encouraging. (Thought I were alone).
Well, I'm using Andrew Pidcock's hand 2 hand resource, but I modded it as follows:

function Player::attack(%obj,%slot,%damage) // %slot is not used for now, but is keeped for compatibility
{
   //alright.. so I'm going to try and cast a box from a point from your monster's
   //current heading/position
   %attackDistance = 0.1;
   %destroyDistance = 0.1;

   %eye = %obj.getTransform();
   //echo("eye=" @ %eye);
   %xx = getWord(%eye, 0);
   %yy = getWord(%eye, 1);
   %zz = getWord(%eye, 2);
   %rotindex = getword(%eye, 5);
   %rotz = getword(%eye, 6) * %rotindex;
   %vec = (%xx SPC %yy SPC %zz);
   //echo("vec=" @ %vec);
   echo("rotz=" @ %rotz);
   %rv = vectororthobasis("0 0 " @ %rotindex SPC %rotz);
   %xx = getWord(%rv, 0);
   %yy = getWord(%rv, 1);
   %zz = getWord(%rv, 2);
   %rotvector = (%xx SPC %yy SPC %zz);
   %rotvector = VectorNormalize(%rotvector); //normalize
//   %rotvector = vectorscale(%rotvector, 0.95);
   
   echo("rotvector=" @ %rotvector);
   //%found = ContainerFindFirst(mask,
   %searchPos = VectorAdd(%vec,%rotvector);
   //echo("searchPos=" @ %searchPos);

   //check for other players - do damage to them!
   InitContainerRadiusSearch(%searchPos, %attackdistance, $TypeMasks::PlayerObjectType);
      while ((%targetObject = containerSearchNext()) != 0)
      {
          echo("found=" @ %targetObject );
          if(%targetObject != %obj )
          {
             //hey it's not us!
             %targetObject.applyDamage(%damage); //20 pts damage? // this is for the main player, while the guard AI bot uses the line below
             //Armor::damage(%this, %targetobject, %obj, %searchpos, %damage, "Hand to Hand");
          }//endif
      }//endwhile
}//endF


Having a better look at the values, I noticed the axis seems as follows:

    /|\ Y
X    |
<----+

Thanks.

Bye, Thc.

#4 Wow. I suspect there's a much simpler way to do the same thing. Have you tried using getForwardVector() or getEyeVector() instead of all that complex matrix manipulation?

#5 If nothing is wrong with the code itself (beats me!), check to see if the axes of the exported player character were set up correctly.

That's about the only advice I can surmise, heheh.

#6 @ Matt:
I already checked the model axis. It was the first thought I made, because I know the mesh has to look in positive-y axis. I also know about some axis change by 3dsm in regard to other modeling package, so I were still suspicious. By the way, adam goes forward very well, so I think it's all right by this side.

@ Ben:
Ouch! I don't knew about this getforwardvector!!! OK, I'll try it and let know. Thanks.

While I'm here: I'm using AIGuard resource and everything is fine, except the animations. If I use setactionthread the animations won't play. Why?
Neither for just a frame...

The codebase is about the same, the only change is I'm using AIGuard class instead of player.

Bye, Thc.
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EDIT: Just to be louder, the "standard" animations are fine, just the punch and kick animations aren't.
I'm using %obj.setactionthread("animation"); inside the AI "think" loop, but noticed if I use the same in player the player won't play too.
I'm afraid that using %this.setactionthread instead the action would apply to all AI bots in the mission. Wouldn't it?
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#7 ???
AIGuard author? GG staff? Any documentation points?
If I knew something about this, I wouldn't ask, don't you think so?
As far as I know, setactionthread is used to start animations, why it doesn't work with pointers? (I think %obj is a pointer to a specific AIGuard instance)
Anyhow, what is setactionthread suitable to work with?

Thanks in advance for replyes (if any).

Bye, Thc.

EDIT: By the way, thank you very much Ben for your suggestion about getforwardvector!!! It works flawlessly and made me make good impression on my skeptics colleagues.

#8 I don't know exactly what's wrong; setActionThread controls one of the animation threads in the Player code, and it can be overridden in a variety of cases. Whenever I use it in a non-trivial way I end up having to step through the code a lot to be 100% sure I've got it right; I imagine you'll have to do the same.

#9 Ouch!!! Do I really have to look at the code? No, please.
If you know, could you tell me wich object are suitable to be used with setactionthread?
Or, could you tell me how the animation priority is calculated in blending?

Thanks.

Bye, Thc.

#10 Sometimes you have to read the code to know exactly how something works. Or experiment. :)

Calling dump() on an object will tell you what methods it has. In general if it has setActionThread, setActionThread will work.

#11 Thanks.
So, I have to open up the console and type echo($aiplayerguard.dump()); (where $aiplayerdump is object2id(%obj) called in AIGuard)
right?

Bye, Thc.