efficient gun position code? - GameCreators Forum

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devastation

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Posted: 20th Sep 2005 22:16

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I spent a few hours making some gun position code of my own from scratch, and it sucked, so I am using some simplified code from the ICED demo that comes w/ DBC. It works okay, but there's a huge problem. If you're facing one side and look up and down, the gun points up and down the right way, but if you're facing the other direction, it faces the opposite way on the X axis. I'm not sure if it's that I'm using a .x level or what, but it kind of kills the game.

I've looked in the codebase and throughout the forums and cant find any entrys on gun positioning, so does anyone have any good code they'd lend me? Thanks in advance!

And I don't want to use lock object on, as I want to do a lot with shadows in my game and I want the projectile to start in the gun. It's the paintball post a couple pages ago (the one with the broken screenshot links).

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Leeorg

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Posted: 20th Sep 2005 22:44

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Err - its hard to say without any code posted. Are you using Camera Pitch Up and Camera Pitch Down commands? They work better then Camera Rotate in that they actually do what you want the camera to do

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Posted: 20th Sep 2005 23:12 Edited at: 20th Sep 2005 23:24

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Zotoaster gave me some back in the newcomers corner when I asked - I don't know why it works though, and have a horrible feeling it's slipped off page 1 -- I'll see if I can dig it out...

Edit: http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=59690&b=7

that should be it -- it's near the bottom though

(If you can figure out why this works, can you tell me please -- it's not quite right when you look up or down, and I might know what's wrong with itif I know why it works (Sorry if I hi-jacked your thread though))

...maybe one day I'll finish a project