Updating Control Object with gameTSControl

#1 I have an update to the above code. I got it to work by passing the aim location off to a script function, which then did a commandToServer to update the player's aim. Next to do is throttle it, will probably use processTick or some such.

void GameTSCtrl::onMouseMove(const GuiEvent &evt)
{
   if(gSnapLine)
      return;

   MatrixF mat;
   Point3F vel;
   if ( GameGetCameraTransform(&mat, &vel) )
   {
      Point3F pos;
      mat.getColumn(3,&pos);
      Point3F screenPoint((F32)evt.mousePoint.x, (F32)evt.mousePoint.y, 1.0f);
      Point3F worldPoint;
      if (unproject(screenPoint, &worldPoint)) {
         Point3F vec = worldPoint - pos;
		 Point3F lStart, lEnd;
         lStart = pos;
         vec.normalizeSafe();
         lEnd = pos + vec * 1000;		 

		GameConnection* conn = GameConnection::getConnectionToServer();
		if(!conn)
			return;
		Player* control = dynamic_cast<Player*>(conn->getControlObject());
		   if (!control )
			  return;

		 RayInfo info;
		 gClientContainer.castRay(lStart, lEnd, TerrainObjectType | PlayerObjectType | StaticShapeObjectType | InteriorObjectType, &info);

		 char mousePosStr[128];
		 dSprintf( mousePosStr, 128, "%f %f %f", info.point.x,  info.point.y, info.point.z );

		 Con::executef(this,"MouseMove",mousePosStr);			
      }		
   }
}

function PlayGui::MouseMove(%this,%pos)
{
   commandToServer('UpdateAim',%pos);
}

---

function serverCmdUpdateAim(%client,%pos)
{
   %client.getControlObject().setAimLocation(%pos);   
}

#2 I took a different approach to what I was trying to do. I added ITickable to GameTSCtrl. Every tick the mouse coords are grabbed, processed and passed onto script which then do a commandToServer to update the player's aim. This way I won't have to worry about other Gui controls that are on screen intercepting the onMouseMove method of GameTSCtrl(for instance the chat hud). Plus it solves issues with using onMouseMove in the first place. onMouseMove only got called... when the mouse was moved... which if the mouse wasn't moving the player would just run to where the position from the last mouse move was, and then turn around and run back towards it... and so on. Using ITickable solved that.

void GameTSCtrl::processTick(void)
{
	if(Platform::getRealMilliseconds() - mMouseUpdateMS < 32)  //throttle update
		return;
	else
		mMouseUpdateMS = Platform::getRealMilliseconds();

	GuiCanvas *Root = getRoot();
	Point2I mousePos = Point2I(0,0);

	if(Root)
		mousePos = Root->getCursorPos();
	else
		return;

	GameConnection* conn = GameConnection::getConnectionToServer();
	if(!conn)
		return;
	Player* control = dynamic_cast<Player*>(conn->getControlObject());
	if (!control )
		return;

	MatrixF mat;
	Point3F vel;
	if ( GameGetCameraTransform(&mat, &vel) )
	{
		Point3F pos;
		mat.getColumn(3,&pos);
		Point3F screenPoint((F32)mousePos.x, (F32)mousePos.y, 1.0f);
		Point3F worldPoint;

		if (unproject(screenPoint, &worldPoint)) {
			Point3F vec = worldPoint - pos;
			Point3F lStart, lEnd;
			lStart = pos;
			vec.normalizeSafe();
			lEnd = pos + (vec * 1000);	

			RayInfo info;
			gClientContainer.castRay(lStart, lEnd, TerrainObjectType | PlayerObjectType | StaticShapeObjectType | InteriorObjectType, &info);

			char mousePosStr[128];
			dSprintf( mousePosStr, 128, "%f %f %f", info.point.x,  info.point.y, info.point.z );			

			Con::executef(this,"MouseMove",mousePosStr);  //pass to script so it can be sent server side
			control->setAimLocation(info.point);  //client side only, makes character orientation smoother

			//Con::printf("%i %i", mousePos.x,  mousePos.y);
			//Con::printf("%f %f %f", info.point.x,  info.point.y, info.point.z);
		}		
	}
}

I still have to throttle it, because for some reason sometimes when I load a mission once it finishes loading - nothing happens. It will just sit there with the load bar on full and the game will appear to freeze. I found that it has something to do with gClientContainer... If I keep that throttle in there everything works fine... everytime. Plus If I feel the need to tweak how often the the player's aim gets updated I can do so(prolly for bandwidth reasons).

Special thanks to Pat Wilson for his article on TDN about ITickable.