Characters and moving them around the level.

[FCP]

At this stage I am beginning to look at how to load a character model from code and make it chase the player around the level a bit - are there any examples in the documentaion/tutorial/anywhere else that I can look at?

[jorrit]

At this stage I am beginning to look at how to load a character model from code and make it chase the player around the level a bit - are there any examples in the documentaion/tutorial/anywhere else that I can look at?

Not really but if you use CEL you can already get a bit further in this. Are you using CEL right now?

Greetings,

[FCP]

Yes, yes I am. Cel is pretty handy actually.

[FCP]

Can you or anyone give me a tip or an example code of loading an npc using the CEL's api though?

Or is it even possible at this stage, with pcnpcmove beahivioral layer and iPcNpcMove structs not being fully implemented?

This is what I have for loading an NPC code (that crashes the program when called):

csPtr<iCelEntity> CelTest::CreateNPCActor (const char* name,
   const char* /*factname*/, const csVector3& /*pos*/)

{
 csRef<iCelEntity> NPCentity_cam = pl->CreateEntity (name, bltest,
        "actor",
   "pcactormove",
   "pcmesh",
   "pcmeshselect",
   "pclinearmovement",
   "pctooltip",
   "pcinventory",
   "pcsoundlistener",
  if (!entity_cam) return 0;

  // Get the iPcActorMove interface so that we can set movement speed.
  csRef<iPcActorMove> pcactormove = CEL_QUERY_PROPCLASS_ENT (NULL,
     iPcActorMove);
  pcactormove->SetMovementSpeed (2.0f);
  pcactormove->SetRunningSpeed (5.0f);
  pcactormove->SetRotationSpeed (1.75f);
  pcactormove->SetJumpingVelocity (6.31f);

  csRef<iPcMesh> evilpcmesh = CEL_QUERY_PROPCLASS_ENT (NPCentity_cam, iPcMesh);
  bool evilhascal3d = true;
  evilpcmesh->SetPath ("/cel/data/");
  evilhascal3d = evilpcmesh->SetMesh ("test", "cally.cal3d");

//calls to iPcNpcMove struct
  csRef<iPcNpcMove> npclinmove = CEL_QUERY_PROPCLASS_ENT (NPCentity_cam,
   iPcNpcMove);

  return csPtr<iCelEntity> (NPCentity_cam);
}


And the call in CreateRoom():

  entity_dummy1 = CreateNPCActor ("NPC", "", csVector3 (0,0,10));
  if (!entity_dummy1) return false;

Any idea why that crashes?