angle an object to follow the rider? | Forums

[rlmergeuser]

Ive been trying to make a map where a minigun rotates to follow the rider. I have tried all types of data sources in the object position event but I can't find a way to get this to work. Has anyone found a way to do something like this?

[rlmergeuser]

use a custom camera, set it to follow the rider, lower its range to keep it from being a view problem, and use the angles from that for your gun. Not sure if game cameras are glue-able, if not you might have to use a -1 multiplier operation to reverse the angle if its not aiming right

[rlmergeuser]

if you have a mic, ill help you tomorrow. just message me so we can talk.

[sparkierjonesz]

had the same problem, tried the game camera thing to but that didn't work properly, it started doing strange things(probably just my camera settings(i didn't look further into it) but i tried solving it in another way

currently i do it with 2 angle( this works half of the time while the relative z distance is positive)
jaws=0, pitch is arctan(z/y), bank arctan(z/x) and than some logic to change
jaws to 180,and take the negative of x and z isn't perfect but verry close

[rlmergeuser]

I tried the camera thing and with some minor adjustments to the angles I was able to get it to follow the rider fairly well

[MrWare2012]

Hi Yatahe, could I ask how you got this to work?

[sparkierjonesz]

i did the same

i used a second ope for the camera with global xyz as the object
select target for targets location
i had to enable the camera to make it folow the target else it wouldn't rotate
had to adjust range to 0.1 so it didn't change the camera i was looking trough( not sure if last 2 steps are the best way to keep focus on target for angles and not changing the cam)
connect info game data scource to the camera for x, y and z angle
add some 2input operator to add 270 to the y value' (maybe another angle needs to be changed in your case)

conect in ope the values off jaws pitch and bank with the angles

[MrWare2012]

Thanks sparkierjonesz.

Still yet to really give your way a try as I keep trying to do the complicated stuff first and needed to work on my track but will give this a go. Its something that seems simple in theory but was causing me no end of grief! I think my main problem has been trying to have the gun follow the game cam (the thought being the added zooming on the z axis would be pretty cool). Saying that, zooming could still be accomplished on a custom cam just a lot more work!

[MrWare2012]

Can you believe, I still cant get this to work!

[sparkierjonesz]

what isn't working for you?

is it the angle or something else?