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[B5bug] No 3rd Person Inside Triggers

by Steve Acaster · in Torque 3D Professional · 08/12/2009 (10:40 pm) · 10 replies

Being inside a trigger disables third person view. If you are already in 3rd person, the camera will switch to 1st person, though you can still use "z" to look-around. Move out of a trigger and 3rd person pops back.

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Associate Fyodor -bank- Osokin
Dedicated Logic
#3
08/13/2009 (3:46 am)
in stock TGE same behaviour inside the WorldEditor (no Third-P-view) while in normal "game" mode it works fine.
Looks like camera queries TriggerObjects for collision check, which should be ignored.

Torque 3D Owner Kenneth Holst
Default Studio Name
#4
08/17/2009 (6:14 pm)
Logged as THREED-663

Torque 3D Owner Martin Banks
ArchieMD
#5
09/25/2009 (6:37 pm)
could this be happening because a trigger is a gamebase object and the camera thinks it is extending into a solid object?

Torque 3D Owner Martin Banks
ArchieMD
#6
09/28/2009 (1:03 pm)
Ok, seems like this may be a fix:

in shapebase.cpp
void ShapeBase::getCameraTransform(F32* pos,MatrixF* mat)

change this call to castRay
if (mContainer->castRay(sp, ep,
                              (0xFFFFFFFF & ~(WaterObjectType      |
                                              GameBaseObjectType   | 
                                              DefaultObjectType)),
                              &collision) == true)

to this:

if (mContainer->castRay(sp, ep,
                              (0xFFFFFFFF & ~(WaterObjectType      |
                                              GameBaseObjectType   | TriggerObjectType|
                                              DefaultObjectType)),
                              &collision) == true)

which simply adds the TriggerObjectType to the list of exclusions when determining whether or not to extend the camera into a solid object.


Associate Steve Acaster
[YorkshireRifles.com]
#7
09/28/2009 (4:00 pm)
Yep, that certainly appears to work fine! Nice one.

Torque 3D Owner mb
#8
09/29/2009 (5:24 pm)
Is this fixed in T3d 1.0? I'm having other problems with triggers as well. I don't know what the problem is yet, but my resource 'bf2 style capture the flag' doesn't work correctly. I'm wondering if it's me or T3D.

Associate Steve Acaster
[YorkshireRifles.com]
#9
09/29/2009 (5:42 pm)
mb, are you sure you just haven't forgotten to name the trigger datablocks correctly or exec the files - cos I've messed up on both of those things before.

Also, forcing 3rd person inside a trigger appears resolved in 1.0.

Torque 3D Owner Yadhi Aditya P
#10
03/22/2010 (3:54 am)
is there any fix for 1.0.1 ?