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Player Conforming to Interiors Upside Down

by Affectworks · in Torque Game Engine · 10/16/2006 (9:40 am) · 9 replies

I spent the past weekend working on getting players to walk on surfaces at any angle. I looked at the Conform to Terrain resouce and it was extremely helpful in understanding the beast that is player.cc . I was hoping that this awesome community would have some helpful tips towards achieving this task.
I found it relatively easy to get past the gravity always being down issue. Now I am somewhat struggling with the task of either conforming the player to terrain +180 degrees or changing the players up axis to what I set as the gravity vector.

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Torque Owner Mark Junior
#1
10/16/2006 (10:43 am)
Hi, welcome to the community. So do you want to know how to make the player be able to climb a certain angle only? then i think its in player.cs you should see max degreese angle or something change it.

i aint much of a pro myself :)

Torque 3D Owner Affectworks
#2
10/16/2006 (11:11 am)
Thanks for the response!

I'm actually looking for more of a way to make the player rotate its up direction according to its gravity vector. In short, Right now the engine seems to really like z to be the up and down axis I would like to make that dynamic to a vector of my choosing (gravity vector).

btw... welcome to the community back at ya :)

Torque Owner Juha Eerola
#3
10/16/2006 (11:34 am)
Couple of days ago I figured out that I need something like that. And for both of my projects.
Would be neat if someone who's advanced with torque could help us.

Torque Owner Fucifer
#4
10/16/2006 (12:05 pm)
Here something that might help. It for the vehicle but might lead you in direction you want go.

Stupid WheeledVehicle tricks
http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=8786

Torque 3D Owner Affectworks
#5
10/16/2006 (12:51 pm)
Thanks, it looks like that resource could be of some help. I will post any of my findings here for you as well Juha.

If anybody else has any ideas or tips please feel free to join in the discussion as well.

Torque Owner Berserk
#6
10/18/2006 (3:02 am)
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Torque 3D Owner Affectworks
#7
10/18/2006 (12:44 pm)
Good news everyone! :)
So now I can walk on the ceiling... well mostly actually it seems to work upto about 320 degrees or so (the rest of the 40 degrees, I tend to slide off of like it were too steep, shouldn't be a problem)... anyway I was wondering if anybody has any ideas on why it is when I try to walk straight up or down in the z direction my player snaps to face in the y and x planes and can't look +z or -z?
I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the player not being setup in the engine to horizontally rotate to face the z plane or something weird like that... anyway if you guys have thoughts feel free to share.

If I don't make much sense please ask me to rephrase the question.

Torque Owner Ed Johnson
#8
10/22/2006 (3:48 pm)
I really like the progress you've made with this. I hope you figure it out with the gravity vector, and make it a resource sometime :)

Torque 3D Owner mb
#9
10/23/2006 (9:42 am)
Quote:player snaps to face in the y and x planes and can't look +z or -z?

might be the minLookAngle, and maxLookAngle ?