How do I set the position of a entity?

[dnifan]

Well, there's my question, I really hope someone can answer it as I've been busy with it for almost a week now. And I just can't seem to get the solution.

 

Thanks

[DarthDie]

You need to unlink the entity, set origin, then link again. Right? trap_UnlinkEntity, trap_LinkEntity, ent->r.currentOrigin .

[dnifan]

I already tried that, and other numerous possibilities. Unfortunately, they failed.

[razorace]

I don't think you need to relink an object to move positions like that. From what I remember, I think there's a SetOrigin function that does all the hard work for you.

 

Where in the code are you trying to do this?

[dnifan]

I need to reposition a entity that has no position yet. Already linked.

You mean G_SetOrigin(gentity_t *ent, vec3_t *pos) right?

Well, I already tried that Doesn't work.

[ensiform]

How was the entity created?

[dnifan]

G_Spawn(), and then a G_InitEntity (or something like that)

[razorace]

hmmm, that should work. maybe something else if preventing it from happening. What sort of object are you creating?

[ensiform]

You shouldn't need to G_InitEntity.

 

G_SetOrigin should work if you know an origin to set it to, like say the player's origin and then maybe move it out a ways by factoring in the YAW portion of viewangles.

 

you dont use G_SetOrigin(yournewentity, yournewentity->s.origin) you would choose some local variable or base it off of something that already exists.