How to change character controller height

[DigitalHax]

Hello. I am looking at the character controller function with the leadwerks engine, and I got it all set up, but the camera height was too low. Which brings me to another point. How come in the tutorial for character controllers, it uses a map, scene.gmf, which does not come in the zip! Can someone help me with this? I am a bit of a noob to C++. Thanks in advance.

[Marleys Ghost]

If memory serves (which it does now and then) somewhere in the murky past the controllers origin was changed from the centre to the base of the controller .. I thnk the position the cam is moved to in that tutorial is a y value multiplied by 0.5 ... try removing the 0.5

[DigitalHax]

Works like a charm thanks. Oh and before I forget, how would you. Load a map, (.sbx) instead of a model?

[Rick]

TEntity scene = LoadScene("abstract::myscene.sbx")

[DigitalHax]

This works to load it, but the scene doesn't collide with the player. I set the entity type and set the collisions, but it still doesn't collide with the player.

[Rick]

So you create a character controller for the player and that's what you are setting the entity type on? Did you also give it the character controller a mass?

[DigitalHax]

Well i created the character controller originally just following the tutorial, it worked fine and had mass and collisions,but it loaded a model instead of a map, so when i loaded a map instead, the map would be there, then you would just fall through it. even if you set it to spawn on top of it, it would still not collide with you in any way.

[Rick]

I guess you'd have to post your code because if you said you set the correct entity types and collisions with the right collisions response (last param to Collisions()) then it should work.

[DigitalHax]

This is my code so far.

 

_{#include "engine.h"}

 

_{int WINAPI WinMain( HINSTANCE hInstance,}

_{HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,}

_{LPSTR lpCmdLine,}

_{int nShowCmd )}

_{

_{Initialize() ;}

_{RegisterAbstractPath("F:/Leadwerks Engine SDK/Leadwerks Engine SDK");}

_{SetAppTitle( "MyGame-Debug" );}

 

_{//Create a graphics context}

_{Graphics(1280,720);}

 

_{//Create a world}

_{if (!CreateWorld()) {}

_{MessageBoxA(0,"Error","Failed to create world.",0);}

_{goto exitapp;}

_}

 

_{//Create a camera}

_{TEntity cam=CreateCamera();}

_{CameraClearColor(cam,Vec4(0,0,1,1));}

_{PositionEntity(cam,Vec3(0,2,-10));}

 

_{Collisions(1,2,true);}

 

_{//Load a model}

_{TEntity scene=LoadScene("abstract::tunnels.sbx");}

_{PositionEntity(scene,Vec3(3.8,-2.5,0));}

_{if (scene==0) {}

_{MessageBoxA(0,"Error","Failed to load model.",0);}

_{goto exitapp;}

_}

_{EntityType(scene,2);}

 

_{//Create a light}

_{TLight light=CreatePointLight();}

_{PositionEntity(light,Vec3(0,5,0));}

 

_{//Create a render buffer}

_{TBuffer buffer=CreateBuffer(1280,720,BUFFER_COLOR|BUFFER_DEPTH|BUFFER_NORMAL);}

 

_{TController player=CreateController(1.8,0.4,0.5,45.01);}

_{EntityType(player,1);}

_{SetBodyDamping(player,0.0);}

_{SetWorldGravity(Vec3(0,-20,0));}

_{SetBodyMass(player,1);}

_{PositionEntity(player,Vec3(0,1,0));}

 

_{float move=0.0;}

_{float strafe=0.0;}

_{TVec3 camrotation=Vec3(0);}

_{float mx=0;}

_{float my=0;}

 

_HideMouse();

_{MoveMouse(GraphicsWidth()/2,GraphicsHeight()/2);}

 

_{//Main loop}

_{while(!KeyHit(KEY_ESCAPE)) {}

 

_{//Camera looking}

_{mx=Curve(MouseX()-GraphicsWidth()/2,mx,6);}

_{my=Curve(MouseY()-GraphicsHeight()/2,my,6);}

_{MoveMouse(GraphicsWidth()/2,GraphicsHeight()/2);}

_{camrotation.X=camrotation.X+my/10.0;}

_{camrotation.Y=camrotation.Y-mx/10.0;}

_{RotateEntity(cam,camrotation);}

 

_{//Player movement}

_{move=(KeyDown(KEY_W)-KeyDown(KEY_S))*2.0;}

_{strafe=(KeyDown(KEY_D)-KeyDown(KEY_A))*2.0;}

 

_//Jumping

_{float jump=0.0;}

_{if (KeyHit(KEY_SPACE)) {}

_{if (!ControllerAirborne(player)) {}

_jump=4.0;

_}

_}

 

_//Run

_{if (KeyDown(KEY_LSHIFT)||KeyDown(KEY_RSHIFT)) {}

_{if (!ControllerAirborne(player)) {}

_move*=2.0;

_strafe*=2.0;

_}

_}

 

_{//Set controller input}

_{UpdateController(player,camrotation.Y,move,strafe,jump,40);}

 

_{//Update the world}

_{UpdateWorld();}

 

_{//Position the camera}

_{TVec3 playerpos=EntityPosition(player);}

_{TVec3 camerapos=EntityPosition(cam);}

_{camerapos.Y=Curve(playerpos.Y+1.75*0.5,camerapos.Y,2.0);}

_{camerapos=Vec3(playerpos.X,camerapos.Y,playerpos.Z);}

_{PositionEntity(cam,camerapos);}

 

_{//Render the scene}

_{SetBuffer(buffer);}

_{RenderWorld();}

 

_{//Render lighting}

_{SetBuffer(BackBuffer());}

_{RenderLights(buffer);}

 

_{//Swap the front and back buffer}

_Flip();

_}

 

_exitapp:

_{return Terminate();}

[cassius]

Is it a terrain or an interior map?

[DigitalHax]

Well I am trying to load the tunnels.sbx demo map, which is mostly models.

[DigitalHax]

Another thing, is that when i load the map, it always says, "could not load scripts/classes". I looked in the directory and in the folder is a fpscontroller.lua

[cassius]

Have you det the tunnels map y to "scene" in its properties. Does it have a phy file and basic lua script.

[macklebee]

you have to copy the entire Scripts folder over into your project folder

[DigitalHax]

Ok. Well I will try all of your suggestions soon. Meanwhile ill be out for australia day