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Player mounting at differnt rotations on vehicles

by Ali Khan · in Torque Game Engine · 12/13/2006 (11:52 pm) · 2 replies

Hi Everyone,

When I mount my player on vehicles I get them at the correct position but the orientation keeps on changing.

When the vehicle rotation is 0 0 0 the players are mounted correctly, that is facing the wind screen. Then I turn the vehicle so that is faces in some other direction.

Then I get out of the vehicle and mount it again. This time I am facing in some other direction, sometimes even facing away from the wind screen.

The following screen shots would explain this better.

[IMG]http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/446/mountcorrectie3.th.jpg[/IMG]



[IMG]http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/39/mountinvertedpu6.th.jpg[/IMG]


It seems the mounted player takes direction from the direction of the vehicle. I can't seem to find any script or C++ code to control the mounting direction.


Ali Khan.
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Torque Owner Martin Schultz
#1
12/14/2006 (12:18 am)
Search for "onMount". Usually the mounted player should be mounted in the direction that the mointpoint looks into which is always aligned to the direction of the vehicle. So my guess is that there's something wrong in your mount code (script-side).

Torque Owner Joshua Jewell
#2
12/14/2006 (11:44 pm)
This should allign your Players rotation properly: 

%player.setTransform("0 0 0 0 0 1 0");

Call this method after the player is mounted.