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New aiplayer not setting rotation correctly

by Robin Rudick · in Torque Game Engine · 09/26/2006 (9:20 am) · 2 replies

Im trying to create a system that can pull all the npc from a database(mysql) and populate the game with them whenever this happens.

the issue im running into is the rotation isnt being set in the new aiplayer system

new AIPlayer(Bob) {
datablock = "PlayerBody";
position = "10 10 10";
rotation = "0 0 1 50";
};

for some reason the rotation doesnt set, it just defaults to 1 0 0 0, unless i change the vaule manually afterwords, i can see ways around this but id rather just know why this is happening!

thanks!
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Associate Scott Burns
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#1
09/26/2006 (9:47 am)
You aren't setting the transform to that of a spawnpoint when spawning the AIPlayer into the world are you?

Robin Rudick
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#2
09/26/2006 (10:18 am)
No, im pulling the rotation from a database, i just cut all that out, what it acctually looks like is this

function serverCmdRequestNPCs()
{
%npcpop = new MySQL();

// ----------------------------------------------------
// set host info

%npcpop.host = "XXXXXXXXXX"; // default: "localhost"
%npcpop.port = "XXXXXXXXXX"; // default: 3306

// user information
%npcpop.user = "XXXXXXXXXX"; // NO default!
%npcpop.pwd = "XXXXXXXXXX"; // default: ""

// connection flags
%npcpop.flag_compress = false; // default: false
%npcpop.flag_ssl = false; // default: false

// database to use
%npcpop.db = "XXXXXXXXXX"; // NO default!

// ----------------------------------------------------
%npcpop.ValidateSettings(); // optional
%npcpop.Connect();


%npcpop.Query ("SELECT * FROM NPC");
%result = %npcpop.StoreResult();

for (%i= 0; %i< %npcpop.NumRows (%result); %i++)
{
%npcpop.FetchRow (%result);
$server::npc::npcID[%i] = %npcpop.GetRowCell (%result, "npcID");
$server::npc::StringName[%i] = %npcpop.GetRowCell (%result, "NpcStringName");
$server::npc::ShownName[%i] = %npcpop.GetRowCell (%result, "NpcShownName");
$server::npc::position[%i] = %npcpop.GetRowCell (%result, "NpcPosition");
$server::npc::rotation[%i] = %npcpop.GetRowCell (%result, "NpcRotation");
$server::npc::scale[%i] = %npcpop.GetRowCell (%result, "NpcScale");
$server::npc::DialogID[%i] = %npcpop.GetRowCell (%result, "NpcDialogID");
$server::npc::datablock[%i] = %npcpop.GetRowCell (%result, "NpcDatablock");

echo("NPCPOPULATING:", $server::npc::npcID[%i], ":", $server::npc::StringName[%i]);
new AIPlayer($server::npc::StringName[%i]) {
datablock = $server::npc::datablock[%i];
rotation = $server::npc::rotation[%i];
position = $server::npc::position[%i];
scale = $server::npc::scale[%i];
nameTag = $server::npc::ShownName[%i];
npcID = $server::npc::npcID[%i];
dialogID = $server::npc::DialogID[%i];
};
}
}

everything else works fine, its just the rotation that doesnt get set. not sure why