Making character invisible to camera in first perosn mode

#1 I asked this recently too
Stephan Lundmark kindly provided a fix for it.

#2 Thanks to you, and to Stefan!

But it does bring up one rather odd problem. I searched for this solution through the forums using words like "first person" (and I spelled it correclty, unlike my mistake above) "hiding", "camera" and several other criteria in various combinations but I never found your post. I made sure I was logged in so I had access to all the forums - so it should have turned up. In fact, I should have found it easily with the search criteria I was using. So why didn't I ever see it?

Could there be an issue with the search engine and restricted forums? A question for another forum.

In the meantime, thanks again. This will save me hours of work.

#3 Gee, is my name so hard to spell? (:

On the forum search thing: Recent posts might not have been indexed yet, not sure. But I rarely can find forum posts that are recent.

#4 Ooooooopppsss!

Corrected. Sorry about that. By the way I tried the changes you listed and it doesn't seem to work.

Here's basically what I did.

Added the function to the player.h file as stated.

Copied over the prepBatchRender from Shapebase to player.cpp renaming it to Player::prepBatchRender

Added the "else if" code you specified to the routine

Added

bool renderPlayer = true;
renderPlayer = mDataBlock->renderFirstPerson;

Just after the initial comment in the else if routine.

Changed the comparison from

else if ( !isFirstPerson() || renderFirstPerson )

to

else if ( !isFirstPerson() || renderPlayer )

That's it.

It compiles no problem. However, there is no change to the player no matter how I set the
$prep::Player::renderMyPlayer variable.

My assumption is that this routine is not being called - the Shapebase one is. Do I also need to add a prepRenderImage function to the player file?

#5 You're correct with that assumption - You'll need to create a prepRenderImage(); function for Player aswell.

@Stefan - Sorry lol.

#6 .

#7 So all working? I got it in my build and it works so it could very well be that I forgot to include something.

#8 @ Stefan - Nope. Still haven't written the prepRenderImage piece yet. Been preparing the house for winter :(

@Berserk Nice idea but a quick check shows that the variable currently does nothing in the code. It can be set from the datablock to false is defaulted to true in code initialization, is streamed to and from the system, but has no other efffect than to be passed around... It is not used anywhere in the rendering of the character for TSE.

#9 Mincentro outlined why it does not work in TSE anymore, they changed how those functions (prepBatchRender, for instance) work and where it is called.

#10 This is the one I'm using

bool Player::prepRenderImage(SceneState* state, const U32 stateKey,
                                       const U32 /*startZone*/, const bool /*modifyBaseState*/)
{
   if (isLastState(state, stateKey))
      return false;
   setLastState(state, stateKey);

   if (mHidden == true )
      return false;

   // This should be sufficient for most objects that don't manage zones, and
   //  don't need to return a specialized RenderImage...
   if (state->isObjectRendered(this))
   {
      prepBatchRender( state, -1 );
   }
}

It doesn't display mounted objects or render player shadows though. It wasn't really a dire need for my game, It was a bit tedious tryig to get the shadows to work so I gave up lol.

#11 .

#12 Hey, does anybody know how to get Mounted Images rendering?
The methods I've used (mainly commenting out alot of stuff) isn't really producing working results.

#13 Huh? Are they *not* rendering?

They should.

#14 Don't worry, I got mounted items rendering ;)