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Finding all AIPlayers

by Mathieu · in Torque Game Engine · 06/18/2005 (8:03 am) · 8 replies

I'm trying to write small debug tools for my game. In want to draw the moveDestination of all AI running around but I'm having difficulties looping over them in C++.

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

    if ((*itr)->getType() & ShapeBaseObjectType) {
        ShapeBase* shape = static_cast<ShapeBase*>(*itr);
        Con::printf("--%s",shape->getShapeName());

        if (shape != control && shape->getShapeName()) {
            Con::printf("----%s",shape->getShapeName());

            Point3F shapePos;
         
            AIPlayer* theAI = dynamic_cast<AIPlayer*>(Sim::findObject(shape->getShapeName()));
            if(theAI != NULL){
                shapePos = theAI->getMoveDestination();
                Con::printf("%s -- x= %f   y= %f   z= %f",
                        shape->getShapeName(),
                        shapePos.x,
                        shapePos.y,
                        shapePos.z
                        );
            }

            /*
            Some code to draw shapePos
            */
        }
    }
}

console.log return :
--Mathieu
--(null)
--(null)
--(null)
--(null)
--(null)
--(null)
--Bot1
----Bot1
--(null)
--(null)
--(null)
--(null)

It seems that my dynamic_cast is incorrect but I can't figure how to make it work... any idea ?
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Torque Owner Mathieu
#1
06/22/2005 (10:24 am)
Sorry to bump this thread but I'm completely lost here...
Maybe I'm not trying the right way to display the moveDestination of the bots?

Torque Owner Mark Storer
#2
06/22/2005 (10:26 am)
Wouldn't you be better off looking things up by ID rather than by name? I don't believe objects are required to have names, but ID's are a given.

But what do I know?

Torque Owner Mathieu
#3
06/22/2005 (1:56 pm)
Hem, yes thanks, it's better with the ID.
But now that the dynamic cast seems to work I'm having another problem. I replaced my old code with :
Point3F shapePos;
			
AIPlayer*	theAI =	dynamic_cast<AIPlayer*>(Sim::findObject(shape->getId()));
if(theAI != NULL){
    shapePos = theAI->getMoveDestination();
    Con::printf("%s -- x= %f   y= %f   z= %f",shape->getShapeName(), shapePos.x, shapePos.y, shapePos.z);
				
    Point3F tempTest;
    tempTest = theAI->getRotation();
    Con::printf("mRot -- x= %f   y= %f   z= %f", tempTest.x, tempTest.y, tempTest.z);
}

and here the result :

--(null)
--(null)
--(null)
--(null)
--(null)
--(null)
--Mathieu
--(null)
--(null)
--(null)
--(null)
--Bot1
----Bot1
Bot1 -- x= 0.000000   y= 0.000000   z= 0.000000
mRot -- x= 0.000000   y= 0.000000   z= 0.461756

I can access the rotation value with getRotation() but I can't access the moveDestination! Seems to me that in need to get a long C++ seminar...

Torque Owner Mathieu
#4
06/26/2005 (6:28 am)
Finding all AIPlayers isn't the problem now, getting moveDestination is the new one. As I don't want to spam the forums I will continue here...

I'm trying to get the moveDestination of all AIPlayers in game.
GameConnection* conn = GameConnection::getServerConnection();
if (!conn) return;
ShapeBase* control = conn->getControlObject();
if (!control) return;

for (SimSetIterator itr(conn); *itr; ++itr){
   if ((*itr)->getType() & PlayerObjectType){
      if (AIPlayer* theAI = dynamic_cast<AIPlayer*>(*itr)){

      Point3F shapePos;
      shapePos = theAI->getMoveDestination();
      Con::printf("%s -- x= %f   y= %f   z= %f", theAI->getShapeName(), shapePos.x, shapePos.y, shapePos.z);

      //other printf for comparaison
      Point3F tempTest;
      tempTest = theAI->getPosition();
      Con::printf("temp -- x= %f   y= %f   z= %f", tempTest.x, tempTest.y, tempTest.z);

      }
   }
}

Here the console.log :
Bot1 -- x= 0.000000   y= 0.000000   z= 0.000000
temp -- x= 94.360565   y= -257.071655   z= 100.012329
Bot1 -- x= 0.000000   y= 0.000000   z= 0.000000
temp -- x= 93.790565   y= -256.664978   z= 100.012329
Bot1 -- x= 0.000000   y= 0.000000   z= 0.000000
temp -- x= 93.790565   y= -256.664978   z= 100.012329
Bot1 -- x= 0.000000   y= 0.000000   z= 0.000000
temp -- x= 93.220566   y= -256.258301   z= 100.012329
Bot1 -- x= 0.000000   y= 0.000000   z= 0.000000
temp -- x= 92.650566   y= -255.851639   z= 100.012329
Bot1 -- x= 0.000000   y= 0.000000   z= 0.000000
temp -- x= 92.650566   y= -255.851639   z= 100.012329

As you can see I don't get the right moveDestination but I get the position of the Bot, after one of my tests I found that I get the initialisation value of moveDestination.
AIPlayer::AIPlayer()
{
   mMoveDestination.set( 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f );
   mMoveSpeed = 1.0f;
   mMoveTolerance = 0.25f;
   mMoveSlowdown = true;

   mAimObject = 0;
   mAimLocationSet = false;
   mTargetInLOS = false;
}

I really don't understand why I don't get the current value of moveDestination, where I'm making a mistake?

Associate Ben Garney
#5
06/26/2005 (1:38 pm)
Are you working on the client or the server? The client may not have things like the move destination ghosted across.

Torque Owner Mathieu
#6
06/26/2005 (2:08 pm)
Thanks Ben, that's seems to be the problem.
If I don't found another way to display the moveDestination to the GUI I will need to fight with Pack/Unpack. To bad for me, I was trying to keep things simple and clear! :)

Torque Owner Corin
#7
06/02/2008 (4:22 am)
Any resource about that?

Associate James Ford
Sickhead Games
#8
06/02/2008 (11:34 am)
Does this "debug" information have to show up in your gui when there is a non-local server? Or if it works at least for "single-player" will that be acceptable?

If so, heres how I am doing that. All agents are in a global simset. Then the gui control that shows debug info uses sim::findObject to get that simset. Since the simset only really exists on the server side this only works in a single-player situation -- but maybe thats fine because its just for debugging.

Then loop through and do whatever you need.