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Eye Offset// weapon goes through walls

by Matthew Jones · in Torque Game Engine · 07/21/2002 (9:26 pm) · 5 replies

I read a post that discussed this but didn't go into how to solve the problem. I noticed that in the version of realm wars that I have, the crossbow does the same thing. Is there a way around this through scripting or is this deeper in the engine? If there is any reference you could point me to please do.
Thanks
Matt
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Torque Owner Edward Smith
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#1
07/21/2002 (9:41 pm)
In tribes 1 and 2 the weapon came back. Can we just set it to move back(on detection of something is there from bounding box)? or animations needed?

Torque Owner Ian Roach
#2
07/21/2002 (11:36 pm)
I think youll find the crossbow doesnt have a collision box and that is the reason it goes through walls.

When i look in the console i always see an error regarding col-0 not found or sumsuch.

So is that the problem ?

Torque Owner Sabrecyd
#3
07/22/2002 (4:56 am)
Weapons do need a collision mesh or box so they don't "stick" through the walls. Once that is added the weapon is pushed back from the wall if the player is too close.

Torque Owner Matthew Jones
#4
07/22/2002 (7:29 am)
Nope thats not it. I have all that in the model and it doesn't prevent the model from going through the wall. Thats why I was hoping to get an answer here because I thought maybe the code might have somthing to do with it. Maybe? Does the "collision-0" have a reference in the code. How does the engine define it and where? Just a shot in the dark.

Thanks
Matt

Torque 3D Owner Xavier "eXoDuS" Amado
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#5
07/22/2002 (11:32 am)
Maybe you can use the onCollision method of the weapon (considering you have a col box) and change the mount offset when it collides .... not sure... maybe there's an easier way, got no idea.