Player sees through walls when too close

#1 In your modeling program, just make sure that your eye node is inside the bounding box.

#2 I'm using the modern soldier pack. When I open the model in max I can see that the camera and eye nodes are infront of the head but just inside the bounding box.

I've not created characters before. Do I need to move the eye and the camera?

Is the modern soldier pack easy to edit and re-export from MAX6 (using the MAX5 files) or are there some tricks I need to know about?

#3 I think you'd want to leave them where they are and extend the box out a bit, but I'm not sure how to do that myself. As to the other questions, I don't really know, I'm not an artist. But I've had that problem before and that was the issue (i.e., you'd get close to the wall and the eye node would be just close enough to the edge of the box that it'd clip through). I suggest possibly asking on the art forums, maybe.

#4 Hmmm.... the problem is I can't expand the box without the player being too fat to get through doorways etc, and I've spent too long working on art assets to turn around now.

If there are no other suggestions with the modern soldier pack I'll try adjusting the eye node or if that doesn't work - I'll create my own player character. Fortunately my game's only single player so I can get away with 2 arms and a bounding box.

#5 The soldier guy has his camera a little too far away from his face. Just move it closer and you should be fine. I had to do this because the crouchwalk animations I added caused his eye node to move through walls and such, but it's possible to do it without adding animations as you've seen.

Re-exporting the character is easy. Just move the eye node a bit and export as a DTS, replacing the existing soldier.dts (might want to back it up). You won't need to alter any of the DSQ files or do anything else.

#6 @Henry - thanks!

fixing this problem just got whole bunch easier :)