Hi All,

I'm just in the process of implementing characters in my game, I'm currently using the Game::Chr class as a base. I'm finding myself fighting with it a bit, I'm trying to use my own custom animations and I tried removing the call to updateAnimations and doing this myself but then the characater controller doesn't move at all (physically move - custom animations are fine). This issue is something that I can work through when I get chance to study the game object classes code.

Anyway, back on topic, in order to disable to automatic roll/pitch of the charcaters upper torso when turning I have to set the sac.body and sac.head to -1 in my custom create function. Is there a better way of doing this, as this method seems very hacky?

Also, I'm thinking that maybe I should ditch the charcater controller altogether and create my own, is this advisable or should I just hack away until I get it right? What are you guys doing?

You can check the source code of Game.Chr, it's included as one of the items in license downloads.
The rotation of the torso I think is somewhere in 'animate' function.
You can perhaps just comment that out.
It all depends on what kind of game you're working on, right now I'm doing a dungeon crawler for which I don't need a complex character movement/animation class, so I'm not using Game.Chr for that.

(09-02-2014 12:39 PM)Esenthel Wrote:  You can check the source code of Game.Chr, it's included as one of the items in license downloads.
The rotation of the torso I think is somewhere in 'animate' function.
You can perhaps just comment that out.
It all depends on what kind of game you're working on, right now I'm doing a dungeon crawler for which I don't need a complex character movement/animation class, so I'm not using Game.Chr for that.

Hi,

Thanks for the response. I'm just looking through the source for the Chr class now, that's where I found the way of disabling the automatic torso leaning code. I noticed that it checks if the head and body bones have been found before executing the lean code, so making them appear as though they haven't been found disables it.

I don't need anything advanced either to be honest, this would be ideal for another game I'm looking to make in the future, but for now all I need is basic movement and jumping. I might create a completely new character class that is not as advanced and use that instead.

Thanks for the help, it is appreciated.