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Selective Rendering

by Ian (Fluxtah) Warwick · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 06/09/2007 (3:18 pm) · 5 replies

Sorry if this has been asked before.

Is there a usual way of selectively hiding shapes, such as the player.

I want to hide the local clients player mesh, whilst in first person mode (and effectively skip rendering it) but show it to the other clients.

I am still digging, I am just wondering if there are easy methods / fields I can set through script or native code that are specifically implemented for the job :)

any help will be good help

Ian
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#1
06/09/2007 (6:24 pm)
In PlayerData (datablock for your player) set the
renderFirstPerson = false;
This will tell the engine not to render client controlled player when in first person (it's still visible to other players around).

Torque Owner Ian (Fluxtah) Warwick
#2
06/10/2007 (3:23 am)
Hmm strange, that has no effect for me, I can still see my feet and that is set to false by default in the TGEA demo.

Also doing a search in the c++ source code looks as if its not actually used.

Torque 3D Owner J.C. Smith
#3
06/10/2007 (3:40 am)
In TGE the above worked. It never has worked in TGEA, though I'm fairly certain there is a thread someplace documenting what to change to not render first person.

Torque Owner Ian (Fluxtah) Warwick
#4
06/10/2007 (3:53 am)
Cool thanks, still searching :)

Torque Owner Ian (Fluxtah) Warwick
#5
06/10/2007 (6:09 am)
Bump, I am astonished that something that seems so simple has been removed!

My guess is it was removed for some reason, to implement something similar I need to get my head round Torques rendering, I cant find anything of significance on the forums and ive searched for a long time.

Someone put me out of my misery please before I venture into implementing this feature myself.