Moving An Entity Smoothly Between Two Points

[Shard]

Hey guys, got another question. (Sorry about that btw, working on a tight deadline and having a few last minute troubles)

 

I need to move an Entity smoothly between multiple TVec3's that I have and I'm not having any luck doing it right.

Essentially it is a Way point navigation but the only problem that I'm having is getting a Entity to move between two points at a time.

 

Currently I've had to resort to jumps between the locations but I would really like it to be smoothed out.

 

Any code samples would be greatly appreciated.

 

Current Code

if(KeyHit(KEY_SPACE))

{

 

wayPoints[current+1].Y = currentPos.Y;

PositionEntity( enemyController, wayPoints[current+1]);

}

[Canardia]

Use PointEntity() and MoveEntity(). Your PositionEntity() just places it there, without moving it.

You might need to use eventually physics commands though, unless the entity you are moving is not supposed to collide with anything.

[Shard]

Use PointEntity() and MoveEntity(). Your PositionEntity() just places it there, without moving it.

You might need to use eventually physics commands though, unless the entity you are moving is not supposed to collide with anything.

 

 

I have already tried doing that but point entity takes an entity as a second parameter, which I don't have. I only have TVec3.

[Canardia]

Then you need to create a Pivot and use PositionEntity() to place it to the Vec3 location.

You can delete the pivot when a new waypoint is selected, or just keep them until the game ends.

It would probably make more sense to use Pivots as waypoints instead of Vec3s, then you need also less coding and your program runs faster.

[TylerH]

The easiest way to do this is to use a Lerp function on the entity position and just call PositionEntity.