Make Player Face Position

[ShadowRanger24 50]

So I'm trying to figure out a way to make a player face a given position. I thought setDir in combination with getRelDir would work but I can't get it to work. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[tirpitz 15]

Please post code

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[ShadowRanger24 50]

11 minutes ago, tirpitz said:

Please post code

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I'm a bit confused to how getRelDir works. I thought this would work, but it doesn't:

player setDir ((player getRelDir _position) - 180);

 

[tirpitz 15]

I'm a bit confused to how getRelDir works. I thought this would work, but it doesn't:

player setDir ((player getRelDir _position) - 180);

 

Have you tried?

player setdir (player getreldir (getpos clanBase4)-180)

 

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[ShadowRanger24 50]

3 minutes ago, tirpitz said:

Have you tried?

 

player setdir (player getreldir (getpos clanBase4)-180)

 

 

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Just tried but doesn't work properly. It sets the player's direction to a different direction every time, and never to the actual position of the object.

[tirpitz 15]

Have you tried different object types and checked that each component of the code returns am expected value
For example that getpos returns the correct or expected value value ?
I don't currently have arma on my laptop and I am on holiday with limited connectivity.
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[sarogahtyp 1109]

AFAIK:
this should not be possible because of the possibility of cheating.

You cant get control of players controls e.g. keys pressing or mouse moving.

[MrCopyright 107]

@sarogahtyp, that has nothing to do with this. Using setDir does not "influence player controls".

[sarogahtyp 1109]

2 minutes ago, MrCopyright said:

@sarogahtyp, that has nothing to do with this. Using setDir does not "influence player controls".

The direction is directly dependent to the crossfades position!

So it has todo with it.

[Greenfist 1863]

player setDir (player getDir _positionOrObject);

 

And here's the description for getRelDir: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/getRelDir

[ShadowRanger24 50]

15 minutes ago, Greenfist said:

player setDir (player getDir _positionOrObject);

 

This will only set the player's direction to whatever the direction the object is. What I want is, to set the player to look at an objective. Basically I spawn them outside of an objective zone, and I want to make them face the center of the objective.

[Greenfist 1863]

Oh you mean the eye direction, sorry. No, you can't control that directly. (Except with custom animations maybe)

You could hide the player, create a camera at his eye position, turn it towards the target for couple of seconds, then back to the original direction, delete the camera, and return the player character.

[mrcurry 511]

57 minutes ago, ShadowRanger24 said:

This will only set the player's direction to whatever the direction the object is. What I want is, to set the player to look at an objective. Basically I spawn them outside of an objective zone, and I want to make them face the center of the objective.

 

Wrong - Read the extended syntax of getDir
 

When given 1 argument getDir returns the direction of the object.

When given 2 arguments it will get the direction from the first argument to the second argument.

 

//Dir from player to bottomleft corner of map:
player getDir [0,0,0]

//Dir from bottomleft corner of map to player:
[0,0,0] getDir player

 

[ShadowRanger24 50]

1 hour ago, mrcurry said:

 

Wrong - Read the extended syntax of getDir
 

When given 1 argument getDir returns the direction of the object.

When given 2 arguments it will get the direction from the first argument to the second argument.

 

//Dir from player to bottomleft corner of map:
player getDir [0,0,0]

//Dir from bottomleft corner of map to player:
[0,0,0] getDir player

 

This is exactly what I needed, surprised I didn't notice it. Thank you! And thanks to everyone else who was helping me.