ALignToVector : entity childs not aligned

[YouGroove]

Hi,

 

I have a character with child pivots, i call : self.entity:AlignToVector(...)

But the child objects don't get rotated or aligned.

[Josh]

The children won't necessarily be aligned, they will just follow the orientation of the parent. This example works as expected:

function App:Start()

--Create a window

self.window = Window:Create()

self.context = Context:Create(self.window)

self.world = World:Create()

local camera = Camera:Create()

camera:Move(0,0,-6)

local light = DirectionalLight:Create()

light:SetRotation(35,35,0)

 

--Create a model

self.model = Model:Box()

 

local child = Model:Box()

child:SetPosition(2,0,0)

child:SetParent(self.model)

child:SetColor(1,0,0)

 

return true

end

 

function App:Loop()

 

if self.window:Closed() or self.window:KeyHit(Key.Escape) then return false end

 

--Get the vector between the mouse position and the center of the screen

local v = self.window:GetMousePosition()

local dx = v.x - self.context:GetWidth()/2.0

local dy = self.context:GetHeight()/2.0 - v.y

v = Vec3(dx,dy,0):Normalize()

 

--Align the model to the vector

self.model:AlignToVector(v,0)

 

Time:Update()

self.world:Update()

self.world:Render()

self.context:Sync()

 

return true

end

[YouGroove]

I didn't attach the child object by code , instead i just drag and drop the object as child in the scene view. Using Align it don't rotates the child.

[marchingcubes]

I see this too.. Interestingly, objects dragged in the scene tree to be children in an older build of the editor (Couldn't say which one) work correctly - e.g. I load an old map where a sprite is a 'child' of the camera, and it behaves as expected.

 

In the latest Leadwerks (3.4beta), adding an object as a child of the camera in the Scene tree has no effect on the objects position or orientation, regardless of how the 'parent' camera is moved.

[marchingcubes]

More info: it seems, in the editor, these parent/child relationships work as expected - when i move my camera in the editor, my child object moves with it.

 

In-game, the parent/child relationship seems non-existent when the parent object's position is set with SetPosition()

[awgsknite]

This bug you found is probably the reason why my parent model from a child does not work either :

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/12037-parent-to-center/#entry87418

prefabs appear in all sorts of places on mine as the player moves

[awgsknite]

In the latest Leadwerks (3.4beta), adding an object as a child of the camera in the Scene tree has no effect on the objects position or orientation, regardless of how the 'parent' camera is moved.

 

I also have this happening in my game. From my fpsplayer I added a pivot as a child(drag and drop) that has my gui on it and from it(child) I am calling to another script's function(fpsplayer function) to create a prefab infront of the player. But each time the player moves, the prefab is placed in a different place and never where the setposition was set(directly infront of the fpsplayer)