Hey Emiel, I've discovered a few things when trying to move "the camera" in Source:
1) I'm assuming you are treating the player as the camera. We've found it helpful to write a server side class to update the player location there - which will update the client. Otherwise, if you force things on the client side, they don't necessarily update the server. I dropped in a code snippet below to do this. Just add it as a .cpp in the dll folder, compile, and start using the command to update the server. 2) Gravity and the ground are not your friend. If you are trying to move the player lower, and there is a surface there, the physics engine will negate your changes. Solutions: Set noclipping on (noclip @ console) or move the ground way low and turn off gravity 3) SetAbsOrigin() sets the location of the player's feet. The player's eyes are 64 in above, assuming a standard player model. So when you move the player with setAbsOrigin account for the fact you are actually moving the deet. If you enable position debuggin (cl_showpos 1 @ console) this shows the adjusted position of the eyes. Here is a tutorial of sorts that *may* be helpful. http://digitalblacksmith.com/wiki/index.php/ValveSourceTransformations Hope this helps. Steve Code for updating player pos on server: <code> #include "cbase.h" #include "convar.h" void SetUserPosition( void ){ CBasePlayer *pPlayer = ToBasePlayer( UTIL_GetCommandClient() ); if(pPlayer != NULL && (engine->Cmd_Argc() == 4)){ //Msg("trying to set user pos..\n"); float x = atof(engine->Cmd_Argv(1));// * 1.25f; // 1.25f is a small adjustment for the lab size float y = atof(engine->Cmd_Argv(2)); float z = atof(engine->Cmd_Argv(3)); /* float offsetX = atof(engine->Cmd_Argv(4)); float offsetY = atof(engine->Cmd_Argv(5)); float offsetZ = atof(engine->Cmd_Argv(6)); float offsetPitch = atof(engine->Cmd_Argv(7)); float offsetRoll = atof(engine->Cmd_Argv(8)); float offsetYaw = atof(engine->Cmd_Argv(9)); */ //if(z > 0) z = 0; Vector pos; //Translate player's feet to tracker pos = pPlayer->GetAbsOrigin(); pos.x = x; pos.y = y; pos.z = z; pPlayer->SetAbsOrigin(pos); } } static ConCommand set_user_position( "set_user_position", SetUserPosition, "Set the user's position from tracker x,y,z with offset oX, oY, oZ, oPitch, oRoll, oYaw", 0 ); </code> To call from client (put this in cl_dll/in_main.cpp): <code> char command[64]; sprintf(command, "set_user_position %f %f %f", x, y, z); engine->ClientCmd(command); </code> _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
