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[Resolved] Projectile Spawn Offset

by Steve Acaster · in Torque 3D Professional · 06/25/2009 (12:47 pm) · 4 replies

Custom weapons and projectiles.

Projectile spawns to the right of the muzzlepoint, can't see any reason for this in the scripts. Not an issue in Beta2. Built from a New Project.

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EDIT

Resolved, as it never was a bug, just me using the wrong getclientobject() method.
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Torque 3D Owner Kenneth Holst
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#1
06/29/2009 (11:44 am)
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Torque Owner deepscratch
DeepScratchStudios
#2
06/29/2009 (12:05 pm)
you got
"correctMuzzleVector = true;"?
try it
I've seen no issues with this at all

Associate Steve Acaster
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#3
06/29/2009 (1:23 pm)
@Deepscratch - Tried all combinations but it doesn't matter either way.

After a bit more testing I think I might have worked out what happens.

I've an aim animation which moves the arms - and thus the weapon obviously.

But the projectile still fires from where the muzzlepoint was before the move, it's not updating the position of the weapon's bones/nodes, hence when aiming down the sight it still spawns the projectiles as though it was firing from the hip.

This wasn't an issue in previous betas.

So if you don't have an ADS animation to move the weapon, you wouldn't notice it.

Associate Steve Acaster
[YorkshireRifles.com]
#4
07/17/2009 (9:24 pm)
Disregard, I fubared.

In my scripts I originally had been using the player's name which I had it set in the spawn script to "hero", so I don't forget what the name is when I call a .dump() or something.

So, hero.aim() worked fine.

Then I changed it to something a little better using getcontrolobject, and didn't notice the in-gmae problem for some time, and didn't think they were related. Until it just crossed my mind now. The things that pop into my head at 5.20am...
//causing the problem was 
//	%player = ServerConnection.getControlObject(); 
// and it should have been

     %player = LocalClientConnection.getControlObject();

   if (%player.getClassName() $= "Player")
   {
   %player.playthread("paim");
   }

Embarrassingly moved to Resolved.