Thank you very much for the pointers Hasan.
I have the peeking working, although now that I have it working I may
change
it so it is more of a roll of the player instead of just shifting the
camera
over.
But thanks again for the help...
r00t 3:16
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hasan Aljudy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Peeking - Left / Right
> There was a player method to get forward, right and up directions ..
> not sure exactly what is it .. something like EyeVectors(&forward,
> &up, &right) where you pass vector pointers to it and it puts the
> direction in them.
> this gives you the right direction of the player, you can get the left
> easily (it's the negative of the right) "left = -right;" if that
> doesn't work, try "left = right * -1";
> now if you call "VectorMA( original_offset, 21, right, &new_offset );"
> it shopuld set new_offset to correctly represent your new desired
> offset.
>
>
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 04:08:36 -0500, r00t 3:16 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> Ok I have the peeking somewhat working but still totally not correct..
>>
>> I am basically changing the default view from 0,0,64 to -21,0,64
>>
>> When facing North (I think that is the right direction ) works great
>> :)
>> However when I move for example facing EAST I no longer lean left I
>> lean
>> back or if im facing SOUTH I am not leaning right...
>>
>> Which is not correct.
>>
>> I am using player->SetViewOffset to set the camera view.
>> I guess my problem is not sure how to be able to SetViewOffset
>> depending
>> on
>> the direction of the player player.
>>
>> I had looked at the VectorMA, not sure what info I need to pass to
>> this
>> however.
>> I want to lean left / right about 15 - 20 degrees...
>>
>>
>> r00t 3:16
>> CQC Gaming
>> www.cqc-gaming.com
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Hasan Aljudy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 10:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Peeking - Left / Right
>>
>> > it's vector math, if you have a point, and you want a point away
>> > from
>> > it at a certain distance in a certain direction you can easily
>> > calculate the new point. The sdk has a funciton called VectorMA
>> > which
>> > takes four paramters I believe .. first is the initial point, second
>> > is direction, third is distance, 4th is a pointer to result.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:15:21 -0500, r00t 3:16
>> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > wrote:
>> >> I want to implement this, and I some what have this working,
>> >> however.
>> >> player->SetViewOffset(); Needs to be adjusted depending on the
>> >> players
>> >> position in the world.
>> >>
>> >> For example. if I set the SetViewOffset to -20 x, If I am facing I
>> >> believe
>> >> North on the map I lean the correct way. However if I turn to the
>> >> east
>> >> and
>> >> try to lean the player seems to lean back...
>> >>
>> >> How would I be able to set this depending on the players position?
>> >> Or is there a better way to do this?
>> >>
>> >> r00t 3:16
>> >> CQC Gaming
>> >> www.cqc-gaming.com
>> >>
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