psionic zombie file

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CodeOrc

(Posted 2007) [#1]

I am using the zombie generously offered by Psionic as a place holder and the zombie works great, anims work great, but when I "pointentity" he comes at me with his back turned to me...as in he walks backwards.

I rotate him on load, but it does no good, as soon as he spots me he walks backward with his back to me.

Any ideas how I can make him walk the correct orientation- i.e flip around?

thx

Paul "Taiphoz"

(Posted 2007) [#2]

rotatemesh.

CodeOrc

(Posted 2007) [#3]

@ Yavin- well it now faces me using RotateMesh, but the mesh is all messed up.

And the legs doubled, but still animate. Just has scattered Verts.

aakkk

chwaga

(Posted 2007) [#4]

it probably has to do with the model's local 0,0,0 position. In modelers, there's a grid with a point 0 in it, depending on the models rotation within the modeler, pointing it to an entity can mess it up. I too had this problem in my game, and found that the solution is to go into a modeler with the model in it, and rotate it 180 degrees so it faces the other way.

CodeOrc

(Posted 2007) [#5]

@ chwaga- thx, but I have no way to load the models in a modeller.... :(

I use Max6, but I do not have a .x importer, and to my knowledge Max has no .b3d importer.

Terry B.

(Posted 2007) [#6]

If its just temporary placeholder, Reverse the pointentity
Ex:

Pointentity Zombie,PointAt
Turnentity Zombie,-180,-180,-180

Thats off the top of my head, may have to tweak it a bit.

chwaga

(Posted 2007) [#7]

yeah, pointing then turning would work also.

Sledge

(Posted 2007) [#8]

To use the Psionic zombie in a regular fashion you can attach it to a pivot then use the pivot for positioning and collision while retaining the model for picking etc.

This should get you going:

Type zombie
	Field model
	Field pivot
	;etc...
End Type

zombieTemp=LoadAnimMesh("zombie.b3d") : RotateEntity zombieTemp,0,180,0 : HideEntity zombieTemp 
ExtractAnimSeq zombieTemp, 2, 20 
ExtractAnimSeq zombieTemp, 22, 36; etc...

;Make a new zombie like this:
currentZombie.zombie=New zombie
currentZombie.zombie\pivot=CreatePivot() : RotateEntity currentZombie.zombie\pivot,0,180,0
currentZombie.zombie\model=CopyEntity(zombieTemp,currentZombie.zombie\pivot)
;etc... (meshcullbox/pickmode for zombie, entitytype for pivot and so on)

CodeOrc

(Posted 2007) [#9]

Ok, thx guys.

It dawned on me to just download the Milkshape Trial, rotate all aspects of the model, the re-export it to b3d.

And walla, it works great.

big10p

(Posted 2007) [#10]

I know others have used this model and haven't reported a problem with it (to my knowledge). Got a link where I can download it?

CodeOrc

(Posted 2007) [#11]

Link to Psionics stuff is;
http://www.psionic3d.co.uk/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=2

big10p

(Posted 2007) [#12]

Ah. From the readme:

NOTE: He also needs to be rotated 180 degrees because He's currently facing the camera on IMPORT (unless thats what you want)

Ben(t)

(Posted 2007) [#13]

for milkshape if you want your mesh to face the right way then you must have it facing away from the camera labeled front

stayne

(Posted 2007) [#14]

The reason the mesh whacked out like that is because Blitz3D only rotated the mesh, not the rig. I remember that problem. Good job sorting it out :).