Blender Car Model Rotate wheel turn wheel together - rotation

I have imported a Benz car model from Blender to OGRE. I am trying to rotate the wheels.
I have 2 requirements. Rotate the wheel like the car is running and rotate the wheel left and right as it is turning based on the steering wheel. I can successfully do it separately but when I do it together, I am getting wrong results.
Before I imported the model from Blender, I made 4 local pivot points for the wheels based on the center(Using set Pivot point based on 3D point cursor option in Blender).
In OGRE, after I imported the model, I parsed the entire scene manager and found the 4 wheel nodes and named as left front, left back, right front and right back nodes. It is as below.
void ogreWindow::makeNodes( )
{
Ogre::SceneNode::ChildNodeIterator it = mSceneMgr->getRootSceneNode()-
>getChildIterator();
QString _name;
while (it.hasMoreElements())
{
Ogre::Node* node_ = it.getNext();
Ogre::String _name=node_->getName();
QString ssss = QString::fromUtf8(_name.c_str());
qDebug()<<"Entities are "<<ssss;
if(ssss=="WheelRightBack_transform2")
{
rotateNodeBackWheel_Right = mSceneMgr->getSceneNode("WheelRightBack_transform2");
m_RotateWheeel = true;
}
if(ssss=="WheelleftBack_transform12")
{
rotateNodeBackWheel_Left = mSceneMgr->getSceneNode("WheelleftBack_transform12");
m_RotateWheeel = true;
}
if(ssss=="Wheel_LeftFront_transform15")
{
rotateNodeFrontWheel_Right = mSceneMgr->getSceneNode("Wheel_LeftFront_transform15");
turnNodeFrontWheel_Right = mSceneMgr->getSceneNode("Wheel_LeftFront_transform15");
m_RotateWheeel = true;
}
if(ssss=="WheelRightFront_transform3")
{
rotateNodeFrontWheel_Left = mSceneMgr->getSceneNode("WheelRightFront_transform3");
turnNodeFrontWheel_Left = mSceneMgr->getSceneNode("WheelRightFront_transform3");
m_RotateWheeel = true;
}
}
}
Then In framerenderingQueued funciton, I am indefenitely calling a rotate function as below:
bool ogreWindow::frameRenderingQueued(const Ogre::FrameEvent& fe)
{
if(m_RotateWheeel)
{
RotateWheel();
}
.......
.......
}
Where the rotateWheel() is as below
void ogreWindow::RotateWheel()
{
//Working with Euler rotation
//Section 1
if(rotateNodeBackWheel_Left)
rotateNodeBackWheel_Left->yaw(Ogre::Radian(0.01),Ogre::Node::TransformSpace::TS_LOCAL);
if(rotateNodeBackWheel_Right)
rotateNodeBackWheel_Right->yaw(Ogre::Radian(0.01),Ogre::Node::TransformSpace::TS_LOCAL);
if(rotateNodeFrontWheel_Left)
rotateNodeFrontWheel_Left->yaw(Ogre::Radian(0.01),Ogre::Node::TransformSpace::TS_LOCAL);
if(rotateNodeFrontWheel_Right)
rotateNodeFrontWheel_Right->yaw(Ogre::Radian(0.01),Ogre::Node::TransformSpace::TS_LOCAL);
//Section 2
if(isTurning)
{
if(rotateNodeFrontWheel_Right)
rotateNodeFrontWheel_Right->roll(Ogre::Radian(turningRadius),Ogre::Node::TransformSpace::TS_LOCAL);
if(rotateNodeFrontWheel_Right)
rotateNodeFrontWheel_Right->roll(Ogre::Radian(turningRadius),Ogre::Node::TransformSpace::TS_LOCAL);
}
isTurning = false;
}
So the problems I am facing is described below,
a) When I do section 1 alone, the wheel is rotating smoothly
b) When I do section 2 alone, the wheel will be rendered as turned - OK fine
c) When I do section 1 and section 2 together, OK it is rendering with the wheel rotating and wheel turned in "turnRadius" degree.(Image attached-A.png)
d) But If I try to change the value of turnRadius at run time, it is getting crazy.
The side view is as below
I am changing the value of turnRadius as below. I call this function from 2 button clicks from UI.
void ogreWindow::turnFrontWheelLeft(Ogre::Real radius)
{
//turningRadius-=0.1;
turningRadius = -0.1;
isTurning = true;
}
void ogreWindow::turnFrontWheelRight(Ogre::Real radius)
{
//turningRadius+=0.1;
turningRadius = 0.1;
isTurning = true;
}
I understand the problem is the axis issue. How can I make it perfect? I want to do the turn and rotate "rotations" together.

It is working now. I created sub-nodes and did the transforms separately.
http://www.ogre3d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=92364&sid=e21b8189a3defe7ae1c3c4c3b7c4cc57

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RayCast not working as expected, help! (Unity 3D)

Okay so I'm making a photography game where when you 'take a photo', Unity sends a few raycasts forward to check if certain tagged items are in the photo (all within the cameras FOV). My problem is, this seems to work intermittently! Sometimes it finds the tagged objects, other times it will be right in front of the view yet it will miss it completely! Can anyone advise about what I'm doing wrong?
public static Transform target;
public static GameObject[] targetName;
public static float length = 250f;
public static Transform thisObject;
// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
thisObject = GameObject.Find("Main Camera").GetComponent<Transform>();
//target = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Trees").transform;
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
//InFront();
//HasLineOfSight("Trees");
}
public static bool InFront(Transform target1)
{
Vector3 directionToTarget = thisObject.position - target1.position;
float angleOnXAxis = Vector3.Angle(thisObject.right, directionToTarget);
float angleOnYAxis = Vector3.Angle(thisObject.up, directionToTarget);
//Debug.Log(angleOnYAxis);
if (Mathf.Abs(angleOnXAxis) < 130 && Mathf.Abs(angleOnXAxis) > 50
&& Mathf.Abs(angleOnYAxis) < 115 && Mathf.Abs(angleOnYAxis) > 62)
{
//Debug.DrawLine(transform.position, target.position, Color.green);
return true;
}
return false;
}
public static bool HasLineOfSight(string objectTag)
{
RaycastHit hit;
Vector3 direction = target.position - thisObject.position;
//Debug.Log(direction);
if (Physics.Raycast(thisObject.position, direction, out hit, length))
{
if (hit.transform.tag == objectTag)
{
Debug.DrawRay(thisObject.position, direction * 0.96f, Color.red);
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
public static GameObject SortObjects(string objectTag)
{
targetName = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag(objectTag);
GameObject closestObject = null;
for (int i = 0; i < targetName.Length; i++)
{
if (Vector3.Distance(thisObject.position,
targetName[i].transform.position) <= length)
{
if (InFront(targetName[i].transform))
{
if (closestObject == null)
{
closestObject = targetName[i];
}
else
{
if (Vector3.Distance(targetName[i].transform.position, thisObject.position) <= Vector3.Distance(closestObject.transform.position, thisObject.position))
{
closestObject = targetName[i];
}
}
}
}
}
return closestObject;
}
public static bool ObjectCheck(string objectTag)
{
//Debug.Log(SortObjects(objectTag));
if (SortObjects(objectTag) != null)
{
target = SortObjects(objectTag).transform;
//Debug.Log(target);
if (InFront(target) && HasLineOfSight(objectTag))
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
I'm essentially calling ObjectCheck() with the tag I want to check for to get the closest, visible, object with that tag. What is wrong with this code??
In your script, only the closest object to the main camera gets checked. SortObjects() determines the closest tagged object, and then you only handle that single object in ObjectCheck(). - That object might be obstructed by something else, so the method returns false. And other tagged objects that are actually visible, are not picked up this way...
So, you could rename and change your SortObjects() function to check for both conditions right in the loop (InFront(target) && HasLineOfSight(objectTag)), and filter the objects out right in there, since only those objects are of interest.
Also, your HasLineOfSight() method checks the tag of the hit object, but what you probably wanted to do, is to check if the raycast actually hits that exact object. So it should instead compare the hit's gameObject to the target's gameObject, ignoring the tag, since a correct tag alone isn't enough. (Side note: it would make sense to place all "photographable objects" on a "photo layer", and set the layer mask in the Physics.Raycast() call accordingly, it's more efficient that way in larger scenes.)
The way the angles are calculated in the InFront() method is probably causing issues, because the direction vector to the target is really in 3D. To calculate the angles, you could try to use Vector3.Project() or Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(), but that will also be problematic, because of perspective camera issues.
This check is strongly related to the topic of "frustum culling", a technique usually used for rendering. But it's similar to what you need, to filter out all the (possibly) visible objects in the camera's field of view (frustum culling doesn't handle obstruction, it is just a geometric check to see if a point lies within the camera's frustum space). See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewing_frustum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden-surface_determination#Viewing-
http://www.lighthouse3d.com/tutorials/view-frustum-culling/
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UnderstandingFrustum.html
If you want to dig deeper and optimize this, there are a couple of ways this can be done. But luckily, Unity comes with many useful related functions already built into the Camera class. So instead, you could use Camera.WorldToScreenPoint() (or Camera.WorldToViewportPoint()), and compare the resulting screen coordinates to the screen size or viewport, like discussed in Unity forum. (The frustum math is hidden behind these compact functions, but beware that this is probably not the optimal way to do this.)
Instead of calling FindGameObjectsWithTag() every time, you could do it only once in Start(), assuming objects do not get created/destroyed while the game is running.
I've tried to modify your script, since I'm also learning Unity again... The script can be dragged to the main camera, and it should show the "focus object" in the Scene view with the green debug line. I hope this helps:
using UnityEngine;
[RequireComponent(typeof(Camera))]
public class PhotoCast : MonoBehaviour
{
public float maxDistance = 250.0f;
public string objectTag = "photo";
protected GameObject[] objs;
protected GameObject objFocus;
protected Camera cam;
public void Start() {
objs = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag(objectTag);
cam = GetComponent<Camera>();
}
public void Update() {
if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1")) {
objFocus = CheckObjects();
if (objFocus) {
Debug.Log("closest object in view: " + objFocus.name);
/* TODO: take actual photo here */
}
}
if (objFocus) {
Debug.DrawLine(transform.position,
objFocus.transform.position, Color.green);
}
}
GameObject CheckObjects() {
GameObject obj_closest = null;
float dist_closest = float.MaxValue;
foreach (GameObject o in objs) {
float dist = Vector3.Distance(
o.transform.position, transform.position);
if (dist < maxDistance && dist < dist_closest
&& InViewport(o.transform.position)
&& HasLineOfSight(o.transform)) {
dist_closest = dist;
obj_closest = o;
}
}
return obj_closest;
}
bool InViewport(Vector3 worldPos) {
Vector3 p = cam.WorldToViewportPoint(worldPos);
return (p.x > 0.0f && p.x <= 1.0f && p.y > 0.0f && p.y <= 1.0f
&& p.z > cam.nearClipPlane);
}
bool HasLineOfSight(Transform target) {
RaycastHit hit;
Vector3 dir = target.position - transform.position;
if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, dir, out hit, maxDistance)) {
if (hit.collider.gameObject == target.gameObject) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
}
Side notes:
Another issue with this technique is, that there can be tagged objects right in front of the camera, but other tagged objects that are closer on the side will be picked up instead of the obvious one. Many small issues to fine-tune until the scripts fits the game, I guess. Instead of only using one Raycast per object, you could use multiple ones, and take the bounding box or the actual collider shape into account.
An improved version of the script could make use of the Physics.Overlap*() or Physics.*Cast*() functions, documented here.

Stop rotating for a click right on the game object

I have a unity game and in it, a rotating game object, which increases its speed when it is clicked.
My problem is that the game does not work as I want it to. Right now, if I click any part of the screen, it increases the game object's speed of rotation. On the other hand, if I keep my finger on the screen, the game object starts to slow down and then starts rotating in the opposite direction.
I want the rotation of the object to increase when I click on it, not just if I click on any part of the screen. Furthermore, I don't know why holding down reverses the direction of rotation.
var speed = 1;
var click = 0;
Screen.orientation = ScreenOrientation.LandscapeLeft;
function Update (){
{
transform.Rotate(0,0,speed);
}
if(Input.GetMouseButton(0))
{
if(speed != 0)
{
speed = 0;
} else {
click++;
speed = click;
}
You must use Input.GetMouseButtonUp or Input.GetMouseButtonDown, NOT A Input.GetMouseButton, this method used for clamping.
Try use this code:
var speed = 1;
var click = 0;
Screen.orientation = ScreenOrientation.LandscapeLeft;
function Update (){
{
transform.Rotate(0,0,speed);
}
if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
{
if(speed != 0)
{
speed = 0;
} else {
click++;
speed = click;
}
A few issues here:
Firstly:
To increase speed upon clicking on the object only, use raycasting from camera, and check if it hits your object. Your object needs need a collider component on it for this to work.
RaycastHit hit;
Ray ray = camera.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit))
{
Transform objectHit = hit.transform;
objectHit.Rotate(0,0,speed);
}
Refer to https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/CameraRays.html -> Raycasting section, for more information.
Secondly:
Input.GetMouseButtonDown(..) // returns true at the instance your mouse button transits from up to down
Input.GetMouseButton(..) // returns true as long as your mouse button is held down
Use Input.GetMouseButtonDown(..) in your Update() method if you want to to do something when you click on it.

Scale UI for multiple resolutions/different devices

I have a quite simple unity GUI that has the following scheme :
Where Brekt and so are buttons.
The GUI works just fine on PC and is on screen space : overlay so it is supposed to be adapted automatically to fit every screen.
But on tablet the whole GUI is smaller and reduced in the center of the screen, with huge margins around the elements (can't join a screenshot now)
What is the way to fix that? Is it something in player settings or in project settings?
Automatically scaling the UI requires using combination of anchor,pivot point of RecTransform and the Canvas Scaler component. It is hard to understand it without images or videos. It is very important that you thoroughly understand how to do this and Unity provided full video tutorial for this.You can watch it here.
Also, when using scrollbar, scrollview and other similar UI controls, the ContentSizeFitter component is also used to make sure they fit in that layout.
There is a problem with MovementRange. We must scale this value too.
I did it so:
public int MovementRange = 100;
public AxisOption axesToUse = AxisOption.Both; // The options for the axes that the still will use
public string horizontalAxisName = "Horizontal"; // The name given to the horizontal axis for the cross platform input
public string verticalAxisName = "Vertical"; // The name given to the vertical axis for the cross platform input
private int _MovementRange = 100;
Vector3 m_StartPos;
bool m_UseX; // Toggle for using the x axis
bool m_UseY; // Toggle for using the Y axis
CrossPlatformInputManager.VirtualAxis m_HorizontalVirtualAxis; // Reference to the joystick in the cross platform input
CrossPlatformInputManager.VirtualAxis m_VerticalVirtualAxis; // Reference to the joystick in the cross platform input
void OnEnable()
{
CreateVirtualAxes();
}
void Start()
{
m_StartPos = transform.position;
Canvas c = GetComponentInParent<Canvas>();
_MovementRange = (int)(MovementRange * c.scaleFactor);
Debug.Log("Range:"+ _MovementRange);
}
void UpdateVirtualAxes(Vector3 value)
{
var delta = m_StartPos - value;
delta.y = -delta.y;
delta /= _MovementRange;
if (m_UseX)
{
m_HorizontalVirtualAxis.Update(-delta.x);
}
if (m_UseY)
{
m_VerticalVirtualAxis.Update(delta.y);
}
}
void CreateVirtualAxes()
{
// set axes to use
m_UseX = (axesToUse == AxisOption.Both || axesToUse == AxisOption.OnlyHorizontal);
m_UseY = (axesToUse == AxisOption.Both || axesToUse == AxisOption.OnlyVertical);
// create new axes based on axes to use
if (m_UseX)
{
m_HorizontalVirtualAxis = new CrossPlatformInputManager.VirtualAxis(horizontalAxisName);
CrossPlatformInputManager.RegisterVirtualAxis(m_HorizontalVirtualAxis);
}
if (m_UseY)
{
m_VerticalVirtualAxis = new CrossPlatformInputManager.VirtualAxis(verticalAxisName);
CrossPlatformInputManager.RegisterVirtualAxis(m_VerticalVirtualAxis);
}
}
public void OnDrag(PointerEventData data)
{
Vector3 newPos = Vector3.zero;
if (m_UseX)
{
int delta = (int)(data.position.x - m_StartPos.x);
delta = Mathf.Clamp(delta, -_MovementRange, _MovementRange);
newPos.x = delta;
}
if (m_UseY)
{
int delta = (int)(data.position.y - m_StartPos.y);
delta = Mathf.Clamp(delta, -_MovementRange, _MovementRange);
newPos.y = delta;
}
transform.position = new Vector3(m_StartPos.x + newPos.x, m_StartPos.y + newPos.y, m_StartPos.z + newPos.z);
UpdateVirtualAxes(transform.position);
}

Networking rotation sync

My Unity version is 5.2.3f1, I m trying to sync the rotation of a child gameobject, in local works perfectly fine but it doesnt show up in other clients. I tried everything I could find and nothing.
The reason of this is to rotate a FPS body, so, I m trying to rotate Spine2 (Rotate the camera is not my best solution). I m using a Mixamo character to test, in the end I will have Mixamo auto-rigged charscters so everything I make here will be compatible.
I tried to use the Network Transform Rigidbody 3D and it only sync the character itself, not Spine2, I have tried Network Transform Child, and an official skeleton sync.
In the script part, I have tried a lot of things, the most promising one was this:
[SyncVar]
private Quaternion syncPlayerRotation;
[SerializeField]
private Transform playerTransform;
[SerializeField]
private float lerpRate = 15f;
// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
}
// Update is called once per frame
void LateUpdate () {
TransmitRotations();
LerpRotations();
}
void LerpRotations()
{
if (!isLocalPlayer)
playerTransform.localRotation = Quaternion.Lerp(playerTransform.localRotation, syncPlayerRotation, Time.deltaTime * lerpRate);
}
[Command]
void CmdProvideRotationsToServer(Quaternion playerRot)
{
syncPlayerRotation = playerRot;
}
[Client]
void TransmitRotations()
{
if (isLocalPlayer)
{
CmdProvideRotationsToServer(playerTransform.localRotation);
}
}
Its from UNET tutorial series on youtube, Gamer To Game Developer user.
I attached it to Spine2 and still dont work, but when I attached it to the main character, it worked.
Also tried this:
void OnSerializeNetworkView(BitStream stream, NetworkMessageInfo info)
{
Vector3 syncPosition = Vector3.zero;
if (stream.isWriting)
{
syncPosition = Spine.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().position;
stream.Serialize(ref syncPosition);
}
else
{
stream.Serialize(ref syncPosition);
Spine.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().position = syncPosition;
}
}
But I think it was for an older version of Unity.
To make the rotations I m using A Free Simple Smooth Mouselook
I edited it, this lines:
if (Input.GetMouseButton(1))
{
var xRotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(-_mouseAbsolute.y, targetOrientation * Vector3.forward);
transform.localRotation = xRotation;
}
else
{
var xRotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(-_mouseAbsolute.y, targetOrientation * Vector3.right);
transform.localRotation = xRotation;
}
Basicly, I changed Vector3.right to Vector3.forward and converted the Vector3.right only if the right mouse button is not pressed. The script is attached to Spine2 and its activated on the start if(isLocalPlayer) by script.
There's a pic of the current hierarchy:
(some cameras are there only to test, the main camera is FirstPersonCamera, extracted from the standard assets)
I noticed that if I debug log the Spine2 rotation, it only gives me values from 0 to 1.

How to detect a collision between one object and multiple objects in XNA 4.0 C#?

I am new to XNA and CSharp programming so I want to learn to make a treasure hunting game as a beginning so I made a player(as a class) which can walk up, down, left and right. I made a Gem class also which the player can collide with and the gem disappears and a sound is played. But I want to make some walls that the player can collide with and stop so I made a class called Tile.cs (The wall class) and I made a void in it
public void CollideCheck(bool tWalk, bool bottomWalk, bool leftWalk, bool rightWalk, Rectangle topRect, Rectangle bottomRect, Rectangle rightRect, Rectangle leftRect)
{
colRect = new Rectangle((int)position.X, (int)position.Y, texture.Width, texture.Height);
if (this.colRect.Intersects(topRect))
{
tWalk = false;
}
else
tWalk = true;
if (this.colRect.Intersects(bottomRect))
{
bottomWalk = false;
}
else
bottomWalk = true;
if (this.colRect.Intersects(leftRect))
{
leftWalk = false;
}
else
leftWalk = true;
if (this.colRect.Intersects(rightRect))
{
rightWalk = false;
}
else
rightWalk = true;
}
Then, in the Game1.cs (The main Class) I made an array of "Tiles":
Tile[] tiles = new Tile[5];
And in the update void I made this:
foreach (Tile tile in tiles)
{
tile.CollideCheck(player.topWalk, player.bottomWalk, player.leftWalk, player.rightWalk,
new Rectangle((int)player.Position.X, (int)player.Position.Y - (int)player.Speed.Y, player.currentAnim.FrameWidth, player.currentAnim.FrameHeight),
new Rectangle((int)player.Position.X, (int)player.Position.Y + (int)player.Speed.Y, player.currentAnim.FrameWidth, player.currentAnim.FrameHeight),
new Rectangle((int)player.Position.X + (int)player.Speed.X, (int)player.Position.Y, player.currentAnim.FrameWidth, player.currentAnim.FrameHeight),
new Rectangle((int)player.Position.X - (int)player.Speed.X, (int)player.Position.Y, player.currentAnim.FrameWidth, player.currentAnim.FrameHeight));
}
All those rectangles are the borders of the player but when I run the game the player doesn't collide with it so is there any way to fix this?
I can post the project if I am not very clear.
Your parameters are in only, but you set their values inside the call. You have to declare them as out variables so that their value is sent back to the caller. Using out also makes sure you always set a value to them before exiting the function.
So change your function declaration to public void CollideCheck(out bool tWalk, out bool bottomWalk, out bool leftWalk, out bool rightWalk, Rectangle topRect, Rectangle bottomRect, Rectangle rightRect, Rectangle leftRect) and you get the values back.

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