Camera

[yurembo]

@Josh

your code from Top-Down Shooter Example works well:

coord.z = self.camera:GetRange().y
farpoint = self.camera:ScreenToWorld(coord, framebuffer)

but If I create a camera in the editor and assign the camera to a variable in the code, the GetRange and ScreenToWorld functions don't work—the lua interpreter throws an error saying it doesn't recognize such functions. Other functions work fine.

[yurembo]

in debug mode:

in release mode it's working fine

[yurembo]

I think the problem above consists in a work with containers: set and map as told in the message. I created a lot of bullets.

[Josh]

The variable you have is probably an Entity object, and you need to cast it to a Camera object:

local camera = Camera(self)
if camera ~= nil then
	coord.z = self.camera:GetRange().y
	farpoint = self.camera:ScreenToWorld(coord, framebuffer) 
end

 

[yurembo]

@Josh

Yup, this works well!

My temporary solution was to create a local camera.

You see: a bullets buffer overflow is a second problem.