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Control Speed of AiPlayer Rotation?

by Steve Acaster · in Torque 3D Professional · 08/16/2011 (8:31 pm) · 4 replies

After noticing that AiPlayers turn "instantly" when given a target/location to aim at, I was looking through the code (aiplayer.cpp and player.cpp) to try and find out how to control the speed of this movement and slow it down to mimick turning to face the target/location (like the player's mouse sensitivity). Whilst I found the code that sets the rotation (pitch and yaw) I didn't see anywhere that controlled the speed (or if it's in that function I didn't understand the math ...).

Any pointers would be appreciated.
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Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
T3D Steering Committee
#1
08/16/2011 (8:41 pm)
In AIPlayer::getAIMove, there should be lines like this:
movePtr->yaw = yawDiff;
Which set the values of the move to be passed out. That's a convenient location to do some mediation - for example, clamping the values to some absolute bounds.

Torque Owner Guy Allard
Default Studio Name
#2
08/17/2011 (3:02 am)
@Steve - try this

Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
T3D Steering Committee
#3
08/17/2011 (6:15 am)
Nice - a full worked solution ;). Thanks!

Associate Steve Acaster
[YorkshireRifles.com]
#4
08/17/2011 (7:03 am)
5am:
Wonder how I control Ai rotation speed? yaaaawwwwn ... I'll just post asking for pointers and get some zeds.

Sometime After Midday:
Slurp ... yawn ... hey the faeries did it whilst I was asleeep! Shame they didn't cleanup the house whilst they were at it, but hey.

I wish more things I wanted were worked out in this manner ...