Arm Thread Question

#1 What was your question? Maybe you should put the question back in with the solution you found, in case it was useful information for other people.

#2 All it was is how to get the arm Thread to work for the default player. I didn't realize I needed to add to the function onMount in weapon.cs.

ie.

if (%this.armthread $= "")
{
%obj.setArmThread(look);
}
else
{
%obj.setArmThread(%this.armThread);
}

And set the armThread for each weapon.

#3 I'm glad you put the question to the question. I needed that info, thank you.

#4 My game was crashing whenever i called setArmThread(....)

i figured out why -- the mArmAnimation.thread variable was NULL in player.cc ... apparently this is initialized when you have a look animation ONLY..... so you might be able to fix this by loading up a look somehow.

i fixed this by modding the C++ by adding this code:

if (!mArmAnimation.thread)  
	   mArmAnimation.thread = mShapeInstance->addThread();

right at the beginning of Player::setArmThread

i post this here to save anyone interested in armThreads the heinous debugging i had to get into.

disclaimer: i don't know much about torque but this seemed to work

#5 Spamming 4 threads will hardly help you. Have fun.