Ai Crouches But Does Not Animate - FIXED
by Steve Acaster · in Torque 3D Professional · 11/29/2013 (2:47 pm) · 4 replies
Many moons ago I managed to add crouching/poses to the Ai ... with the one problem that they always had to be forced to play the animation.
They changed their boundsbox and went into crouch pose quite happily ... but the animation would never update with the change (without a hideous hack).
Anyhow ... I've been debugging again and still can't seem to spot why it fails.
And the custom code I'm using is from this resource WITHOUT using the nasty hack at the end which drags mPose and NumPoseBits across the read/write system to force the animation to play www.garagegames.com/community/resources/view/22268
Anyone any ideas?
They changed their boundsbox and went into crouch pose quite happily ... but the animation would never update with the change (without a hideous hack).
Anyhow ... I've been debugging again and still can't seem to spot why it fails.
==>bob.setaipose(1); canCrouch - crouching allowed //go crouch canCrouch Has crouch animation canCrouch is not already crouching updateMove crouch desiredPose updateActionThread pickActionAnimation Ai Crouch //<---- hurray! setActionThread2 setActionThread2 End updateActionThread end action = 10 //<---crouch pickActionAnimation Ai Stand //<----UwotM8!? setActionThread2 updateActionThread end action = 0 //<---standing root :( canCrouch - crouching allowed //go crouch canCrouch Has crouch animation canCrouch is already crouching - return true //we are crouching ... but the animation isn't updateMove crouch desiredPose updateActionThread end action = 10 //<---crouch canCrouch - crouching allowed //go crouch --- and LOOP canCrouch Has crouch animation canCrouch is already crouching - return true //we are crouching ... but the animation isn't updateMove crouch desiredPose updateActionThread end action = 10 //<---crouch canCrouch - crouching allowed //go crouch --- and LOOP canCrouch Has crouch animation canCrouch is already crouching - return true //we are crouching ... but the animation isn't updateMove crouch desiredPose updateActionThread end action = 10 //<---crouch pickActionAnimation Ai Stand //<---- www.nooooooooooooooo.com setActionThread2 updateActionThread end action = 0 //stand root :( canCrouch - crouching allowed //go crouch and LOOP ...
And the custom code I'm using is from this resource WITHOUT using the nasty hack at the end which drags mPose and NumPoseBits across the read/write system to force the animation to play www.garagegames.com/community/resources/view/22268
Anyone any ideas?
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#2
note: changes made via this resource www.garagegames.com/community/resources/view/22268
And some success. It still times out creating a "hop" but only at low fps like <15 and doesn't have the hack of reseting the pose.
11/29/2013 (5:34 pm)
After much back tracing I made sure that mPose was being networked and got rid of the hack which recalls it again.note: changes made via this resource www.garagegames.com/community/resources/view/22268
void Player::unpackUpdate(NetConnection *con, BitStream *stream)
{
//...
// MoveMask
if (stream->readFlag()) {
mPredictionCount = sMaxPredictionTicks;
mFalling = stream->readFlag();
mPose = (Pose)(stream->readInt(NumPoseBits));//yorks in
ActionState actionState = (ActionState)stream->readInt(NumStateBits);
//...And some success. It still times out creating a "hop" but only at low fps like <15 and doesn't have the hack of reseting the pose.
#3
11/30/2013 (11:56 am)
Sometimes I see that my (AI)ducks have the same issue when they start or stop swimming. I have applied your fix and it certainly works when calling setPose for assuming a crouch, prone or sprint, but I think that the problem is caused somewhere in the client-server chain, because the serverobject is playing the right sequence/pose while the client still has the old one. This could be caused in the Player::updateMove function where the different poses are checked. Maybe, just maybe, it is possible to add another maskbit and updating the pose whenever it changes, no matter if it is from setPose or from updateMove or whatever. If I find some time I will look into this, but right now i'm to busy hunting bugs in the Master's Eye and I would like to get that thing done before Christmas (although the ducks are one of the minor issues here).
#4
I'd call that little issue ...
12/02/2013 (9:28 am)
Y'know ... after all this time faffing around, I'd forgotten that Ai has it's own move update ... and it's getting written over by Player where they share the same functions ...I'd call that little issue ...
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aiPlayer.cpp
if (mAimObject) { MatrixF eyeMat; getEyeTransform(&eyeMat); eyeMat.getColumn(3,&location); Point3F targetLoc = mAimObject->getBoxCenter(); // This ray ignores non-static shapes. Cast Ray returns true // if it hit something. RayInfo dummy; if (getContainer()->castRay( location, targetLoc, StaticShapeObjectType | StaticObjectType | TerrainObjectType, &dummy)) { if (mTargetInLOS) { throwCallback( "onTargetExitLOS" ); mTargetInLOS = false; } } else if (!mTargetInLOS) { throwCallback( "onTargetEnterLOS" ); mTargetInLOS = true; } }I think something like crouching should be implemented here.