Adding parent parameter causes entity to disappear
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| when adding the parent optional parameter to any entity at creation OR when using EntityParent I lose the child entity. For example dim sun as integer = CreateSphere(64) ScaleEntity(sun,10,10,10) PositionEntity(sun, 0,0,10) dim earth as integer = CreateSphere(64,sun) PositionEntity(earth, 0,0,100) If I run this the erath sphere does not show on the screen. However, if I remove the parent parameter and run it the earth sphere appears normally. Any ideas an what I may be doing wrong? |
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| I suspect, if its the same as Blitz3D, your earth is beyond the camera range. I'm pretty sure that because your sun object is scaled up x10, all positionentity calls are scaled by a factor of 10, too. Its been ages since I did any Blitz3D stuff so I could be slightly incorrect on this, but try increasing your camera range. I think it defaults to 1000, so change it to 2000. |
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| that must have been it. I used changed the code and it worked If I position the earth entity and then call EntityParent() the earth entity retains its global positioning. Thanks for the tip |
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| cimtaurus - you could also have used PositionEntity(earth,0,0,100,1) which would have specified your coordinates in unscaled world coordinates. Cheers, Roy |
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