[Solved]Character visibility

[koreos]

I am doing character animation. Initially I have character as in attached image (screen.png). When I press key character start walking. Along with character, I moved camera too. But for some region in plane, character is seen as in attached image (screen1.png). I thought this is because of backface culling. But even after I turned off backface culling that doen't work. What is the solution for this?

[dark_sylinc]

If the movement is caused by the animation only, the model will go out of its bounds; as the bounds are not updated along the animations.

There was a recent addition to Ogre, where calling Entity::setUpdateBoundingBoxFromSkeleton( true ) will automatically update the bounds based on its animation, for a small performance hit of course.

[koreos]

Is that method available in ogre1.8? Because, I am currently using 1.8.

[dark_sylinc]

No, like I said this addition is very recent.

[koreos]

Is there any alternate solution for this problem in Ogre 1.8?

[spacegaier]

Probably not. You could try to down-port that change fro the new Ogre version to Ogre 1.8. If that works successfully, feel free to create a pull-request for it on BitBucket. Perhaps we will add it to 1.8 as well (although that has to be discussed first, since we usually only apply bug fixes to old legacy versions).

[c6burns]

If the entity is the player character, you could set an infinite bounding box as a cheat. This means it will never be frustum culled. If it is not meant to always be visible, you can either backport the changes or update the bounding box/sphere yourself each frame using a few of your bone positions.

[koreos]

setBoundingBox(Ogre::AxisAlignedBox::BOX_INFINITE) method is not working for Entity. Then how can I set this?

[c6burns]

Code: Select all

Ogre::AxisAlignedBox aabb;
aabb.setInfinite();
ent->getMesh()->_setBounds(aabb);

[koreos]

Thanks a lot!!! Working!!!