attaching weapons to camera

[phototrix]

I'm constructing a tiny first-person-shooter and am trying to get the current weapon displayed on the screen such that it moves with the camera movement - ala half-life, doom, etc. How does one go about doing this?

Thanks in advance.

[jorrit]

I'm constructing a tiny first-person-shooter and am trying to get the current weapon displayed on the screen such that it moves with the camera movement - ala half-life, doom, etc. How does one go about doing this?

Thanks in advance.

At this moment the only way is to do it manually in application code. i.e. manually move the weapon mesh to the location of the camera whenever the camera moves.

Greetings,

[phototrix]

Ok, I got that working. The issue is that the weapon keeps getting clipped off with a little bit of camera movement. E.g, after rotating right the weapon gets clipped off and re-appears when I rotate left. Same this happens when rotating left and moving forward. The weapon remains in view when the camera is moved backwards.
The center-point of the weapon is set to the center-point of the camera.
What could be causing this? Here is the relevant code:

void Test::ProcessFrame()
{
  csTicks elapsedTime = vc->GetElapsedTicks();
  float speed = (elapsedTime / 1000.0f);

  iCamera* camera = view->GetCamera();
  iMovable* movable = weapon->GetMovable();

  if (kbd->GetKeyState(CSKEY_RIGHT)) {
    camera->GetTransform().RotateThis(CS_VEC_ROT_RIGHT, speed);
    movable->GetTransform().RotateThis(CS_VEC_ROT_RIGHT, speed);
  }
  if (kbd->GetKeyState(CSKEY_LEFT)) {
    camera->GetTransform().RotateThis(CS_VEC_ROT_LEFT, speed);
    movable->GetTransform().RotateThis(CS_VEC_ROT_LEFT, speed);
  }
  if (kbd->GetKeyState(CSKEY_PGUP)) {
    camera->GetTransform().RotateThis(CS_VEC_TILT_UP, speed);
    movable->GetTransform().RotateThis(CS_VEC_TILT_UP, speed);
  }
  if (kbd->GetKeyState(CSKEY_PGDN)) {
    camera->GetTransform().RotateThis(CS_VEC_TILT_DOWN, speed);
    movable->GetTransform().RotateThis(CS_VEC_TILT_DOWN, speed);
  }
  if (kbd->GetKeyState(CSKEY_UP)) {
    camera->Move(CS_VEC_FORWARD * 4 * speed);
  }
  if (kbd->GetKeyState(CSKEY_DOWN)) {
    camera->Move(CS_VEC_BACKWARD * 4 * speed);
  }

  // position the weapon relative to the camera position
  movable->SetPosition(camera->GetTransform().GetO2TTranslation());

  if (!g3d->BeginDraw(engine->GetBeginDrawFlags() | CSDRAW_3DGRAPHICS))
    return;

  view->Draw();
}

[jorrit]

As the api documentation of iMovable states you MUST do UpdateMove() after moving or rotating a mesh. This is causing your clipping problems.

Greetings,

[phototrix]

Oops! Thanks!! It is working now

[Photonman]

Oops! Thanks!! It is working now

Hmm interesting code, but this is simple. What any solving this problem? For example parent camera to sprite: sprite follow the camera automatic. I think this is sprite socket in CS, but I don't know it is good way on this problem...
http://www.crystalspace3d.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Using+Sprite+Sockets&highlight=sprite