Commander Map and project...... need some help

#1 Well I got it to work. It was just some extra code that I forgot was there. Everything is working fairly well, I still need to change the dots to bitmaps, though. The only thing thats not working correctly is my script callback that is supposedto return a vector. I'm using unproject for this, which works for panning, but I get all kinds of weird numbers. Heres the console log from that callback.

setting state for MapHud: 1 // switches from control to command mode
MapHud::onIssueCommand called.
command type: onMouseDown
position : -1073741824 1081274825 -2147483648
vector : -1073741824 1081274825 -2147483648
keyboard0 input device unacquired.
keyboard0 input device acquired.
MapHud::onIssueCommand called.
command type: onRightMouseDown
position : 0 1081274826 0
vector : 0 1081274826 0
keyboard0 input device unacquired.
keyboard0 input device acquired.
MapHud::onIssueCommand called.
command type: onMouseDown
position : 1073741824 1081299426 -536870912
vector : 1073741824 1081299426 -536870912

The positions and vectors are the same because I removed the position part(so they both print the vector). I have no idea why I get those numbers, heres the source that calls the onIssueCommand function.

Point3F pt(event.mousePoint.x, event.mousePoint.y, 1);
        Point3F mousePoint;
        unproject(pt, &mousePoint);
        char* vecBuff = Con::getReturnBuffer(256);
        dSprintf(vecBuff, 256, "%d %d %d", mousePoint.x, mousePoint.y, mousePoint.z);
        Con::executef(this, 4, "onIssueCommand", name, vecBuff);

Hers what it looks like BTW:

#2 That looks cool! I'm glad you got it working. :)

#3 Thanks, and thank you for the great start. I have it team sensitive now, and if there is no bitmap set, dots get rendered instead. I still can't figure out how to get the world position/vector from the screen coords, but I'm hopeing someone will help me out. The code I'm using is in the above post, butI get allkinds of weird numbers.

BTW - Everything is that pic is temp untill I get this class into my game.

#4 Bump. I'm having some serious trouble with the camera pos and the mouse vector thing.

#5 Are you sure the camera transform is right?

#6 Not really, the whole GUI thing is new to me. I set my mCameraMatrix in process camera query.

mCamMatrix = q->cameraMatrix;

and then I try to unproject the 2nd coords to world coords.

Point3F sp(event.mousePoint.x, event.mousePoint.y, 1);
         Point3F wp;
         Point3F CamPos;
         VectorF Vec;
         unproject(sp, &wp);
         mCamMatrix.getColumn(3,&CamPos);
         
         Vec = wp - CamPos;
         Vec.normalizeSafe();

I've sorta stoped working on this part of the class. ATM, I'm trying to get waypoints to render, but for some reason, the markerobjecttype isn't getting found. I'm using this code:

if ((*itr)->getType() & MarkerObjectType) {
      WayPoint* way = static_cast<WayPoint*>(*itr);
      
      Point3F newCoord;
      MatrixF srtMat = way->getRenderTransform();
      srtMat.getColumn(3, &newCoord);
      
      Con::errorf("waypoint found! position: %d, %e, %f", newCoord.x, newCoord.y, newCoord.z);

      Point3F projPnt;
      if (!project(newCoord, &projPnt))
         continue;

      if(!mTextureHandle)
      {
      glColor4f(mVehiclesColor.red,mVehiclesColor.green,mVehiclesColor.blue,mVehiclesColor.alpha);
      glVertex2f(projPnt.x,projPnt.y);
      }
      else
      {
      Point2I imgCenter( mTextureHandle.getWidth()/2, mTextureHandle.getHeight()/2);
      dglSetBitmapModulation(ColorF(mVehiclesColor.red,mVehiclesColor.green,mVehiclesColor.blue,mVehiclesColor.alpha));
      dglDrawBitmap(mTextureHandle,Point2I((S32)projPnt.x - imgCenter.x,(S32)projPnt.y - imgCenter.y));
      }
   }

Anyone care to shed some light on what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance, Josh.

#7 Hmm. Which object set are you iterating over?

You're going to have to get your hands a bit dirty here to get stuff working, I fear. :)

#8 Going throught all the gosted objects.

for (SimSetIterator itr(conn); *itr; ++itr) {

Its in the same loop as all the other object that get renered. However its a seperate if statement than the one for the shapebase objects.
I changed the mission marker type mask to MarkerObjectType, but it still doesn't find it.

I tried using gServerContainer.findObjects(... But I have no idea how it works(lots of errors); I haven't found the source for it yet.

It seems that the more advanced the commander mapgets, the more walls I'm running into. I don't mind getting my hands dirty since its essential for Illumina, and its my main focus untill 1.3 is released.

#9 Be sure everything is in scope as I explain in the comments of ben's resource

#10 Thanks Anthony, I got it to render the marker object types. However, this inculdes the spawn spheres. I'm working on a way to only render the waypoints. Anyone have any ideas on how to distinguish class types?

Thanks agian, Josh.

#11 PlayerOjectType, TriggerObjectType . . ect ect all the Type masks look in the object's constructor

#12 I was searching for the MarkerObjectType. I just gave the mission maker class a different type mask, and gave the waypoint the MarkerObjectType. So now I just need to get the camera position and mouse click vectors to be passed into the scripts and I'll start on a waypoint GUI.

#13 You could also do a dynamic_cast to the appropriate class and see if you get a non-null result.

#14 GServerContainer is a Container class object. The source code is in sceneObject.cc, I believe. Do you have a good find in files app? It will save you immeasurable trouble.

#15 I tried using dynamic_cast, but it crashed Torque when I tested it. I got it to only render waypoint by giving them the MarkerObjectType for mTypeMask, and having the mssion marker have some other typemask.

I still can't figure out how to get the darn screen to worlds thing working.

#16 @Josh:
I'm just wondering if you've figured out to do it?

Steven

#17 I'm interested in this as well... over a year later...

i'm trying to do what you did and just keep creating engines that can bring down any computer.