Problem with model showing in First Person

#1 Wow that jetpack looks great! Nice model, and good to see your getting a team together.

I can only think of checking where the eye node is in the player model?

I am sure someone else has had the same issue, I mainly wanted to comment because of the cool model :-).

#2 I am thinking it is all relative to your mount point for the jet pack. Combine that with your FOV and you could have issues. Just my initial thoughts having seen the screen shots.

Ron

#3 Thank you Edward, I'm very satisfied with the gentleman's work. Ron it says mount point 1

function Armor::onAdd(%this, %obj)
{
// Vehicle timeout
%obj.mountVehicle = true;

// Default dynamic armor stats
%obj.setRechargeRate(%this.rechargeRate);
%obj.setRepairRate(0);

%obj.mountImage(JetpackImg, 1);
}

#4 That's mount slot 1, the mount point is set in the image datablock. Have you tried setting the firstPerson flag in the datablock to false?

#5 So I found ShapeBaseImageData::firstPerson = false;

It takes away the jetpack altogether, when I change the mount point it does the same thing...

this is my jetpack.cs in datablocks

datablock ItemData(Jetpack)
{
// Mission editor category
category = "Gear";

// Add the Ammo namespace as a parent. The ammo namespace provides
// common ammo related functions and hooks into the inventory system.
className = "Jetpack";

// Basic Item properties
shapeFile = "art/shapes/items/Jetpack/Jetpack.dae";
mass = 1;
elasticity = 0.2;
friction = 0.6;

// Dynamic properties defined by the scripts
pickUpName = "Jetpack";
count = 1;
maxInventory = 1;
};

datablock ShapeBaseImageData(JetpackImg)
{
// Basic Item properties
shapeFile = "art/shapes/items/Jetpack/Jetpack.dae";

firstPerson = 0;
mountPoint = 1;
ShapeBaseImageData::firstPerson = false;
class = "JetpackImage";
className = "JetpackImage";

item = Jetpack;
};

also in my shapes/jetpack.cs

singleton TSShapeConstructor(JetpackDAE)
{
baseShape = "./jetpack.dae";
loadLights = "0";
unit = "1.0";
upAxis = "DEFAULT";
lodType = "TrailingNumber";
ignoreNodeScale = "0";
adjustCenter = "0";
adjustFloor = "0";
forceUpdateMaterials = "0";
};

And my material.cs
singleton Material(Mat_Jetpack_Main)
{
mapTo = "jetpackMat";
diffuseMap[0] = "art/shapes/items/jetpack/jetpack_d.dds";
normalMap[0] = "art/shapes/items/jetpack/jetpack_normals.dds";
specular[0] = "0.9 0.9 0.9 1";
specularPower[0] = "10";
specularMap[0] = "art/shapes/items/jetpack/jetpack_s.dds";
showFootprints = "0";
};

#6 Is there a way to create a new mount point... ie mount point 2? and some how make it not visible to the player? Would that alleviate this?

I do have future plans of actually having the jetpack as an item, so it can be thrown to another player for use like a weapon.

#7 Just thinking out loud - perhaps look at the first person weapon/third person weapon system and see how that works, might provide a solution or at least some insight.

#8 I was in the irc room today and Tim-MGT gave me a temporary in-game solution.

$player::renderMyItems = false;

it removed it and my weapons(unfortunately) from being seen, but still in third person. I threw renderFirstPerson = false; in both datablock and then in shapebase for the jetpack and it did nothing for me either.

any ideas?

#9

Quote:It takes away the jetpack altogether, when I change the mount point it does the same thing...

You mean you can't see it in third-person either? Sounds like a bug...

#10 no. with that command I was able to remove it from view in third person but it was viewable in first person. The drawback was all my weapons vanished in first person as well.

Tim-MGT told me to add this:
if (image.dataBlock->firstPerson == false) continue;

to my Shapebase.cpp after this line:
MountedImage& image = mMountedImageList[i];

I'll be compiling tomorrow to see if it worked *crosses fingers*

#11 @Edward, Hey we're always recruiting into the dev team... you're simply a small signed contract away from fooling around with this jet pack ;)

#12 Oh... so the firstPerson flag kind of did the opposite of what it was supposed to do? I feel a pull-request coming on.

And, belatedly: that's a really nice jetpack mesh!

#13 well I'm referring to the firstPerson = true; or false part. It's literally non-existent in the source from my understanding of working with Tim in the torque IRC channel.

That's what my post above was referring too. And Thank you for the props :)... If you see Chemeleon running around congratulate him, I might of paid him for it, but it was his hard work!

#14 Right. Did it work after you added Tim's suggestion?

#15 @James, sorry I didn't notice until now.

From the looks of that model it doesn't look like it maybe a game I'd like but I honestly can not commit to anything, the amount of time I have is far to poor to be able to put what is required. I wouldn't want to let anyone down.

But please show your progress :-).