Create/UpdateController

[AndiSenior]

I tried to apply a character controller. Everthing works except moving of the controller. Therefore I have copied the code from the Character Controller Tutorial and from the Developers Wiki CreateController() example as well. Both work fine, except moving the controller

 

In DebugPhysics() in all my tries, the chontroller appears as inactive body, no wonder moving isnt possible...

 

What could be wrong?

 

Thanks

Andi

[Marleys Ghost]

Try adding mass to it with SetBodyMass()

[macklebee]

does your controller have a mass? That is required.

[macklebee]

jinx, you owe me a coke

[AndiSenior]

SetBodyMass did it

Thanks for your support!

Hopefully Josh will adjust the tutorial sometimes...

 

Thanks

Andi

[AndiSenior]

if I use a body as ground everthing works:

 

TBody ground=CreateBodyBox(10,0.1,10);

PositionEntity(ground,Vec3(0,-2,0));

EntityType(ground,1);

 

if I use a model instead, my player falls through

 

TModel scene=LoadModel("scene.gmf");

EntityType(scene,2);

 

Collisions(1,2,1);

 

Further I dont really understand the difference between EntityTypes 1 and 2

 

Hope to helpful hints again.

 

Thanks

Andi

[Marleys Ghost]

Whats the position you are setting your controller to ?

[AndiSenior]

Got it in the meantime...

As you have guessed, it was the controller position...

 

So in the CharacterController Tutorial this two lines are missing:

 

SetBodyMass(player,1);

PositionEntity(player,Vec3(0,2,0));

 

Hard times for a newbie...

 

Thanks anyway

Andi

[Chris Adkins]

Hard times for a newbie...

 

Newbie here .

 

Any other things I should look out for in the tutorials?

[Chris Adkins]

I have finished the Tutorial for Character Controller with the additions recommended here and in one other place. I can walk, run, jump, and everything! BUT (there is always a but) I can't walk up the ramps/stairs, and I am not walking on the floor. I am just floating in mid air. It is very weird. I can't find the problem. I have the gravity set, I have the mass set, I have collisions set, I don't know what else to set. Ideas?

[Chris Paulson]

I beleive this is because the position of the controller changed in LE versions and the zero Y pos is the centre of the controller.

 

If controller is 1.8 high do this:-

 

pos = EntityPosition( controller, 1)

 

PositionEntity(yourModel, vec3(pos.X, pos.Y - (1.8/2), pos.Z,1)

[Chris Adkins]

I found the problem. How embarrassing. I still had the physics from an old scene, but the drawing from the new screen.