moving character with NxOgre 0.9 and PhysX 2.7.3

Hi,

I got NxOgre & PhysX installed and want to move a character.
Problem is that I read different ways to do that on the forum.

Please could someone tell me what is the correct way ?

1) moving forward / backward
mSubject->addMovement(NxOgre::Character::DR_Forward); Seems to be working, but I would like to make the speed depend on the joystick axis value.
In Ogre I tried it do do it this way :
camNode->translate(camNode->getOrientation()*Ogre::Vector3(0,0,joy.mAxes[2].abs/32000.0));

How should I get the joystick-value integrated so the speed is influenced ?

2) turning
camNode->yaw(Ogre::Degree(-joy.mAxes[2].abs/5000));
mSubject->setDirection(camNode->getOrientation());

Seems to do well, but I'm unsure if that is the "right" way to do it.


Thank you !

If I understood you right, can't you take something like (I'm not so familiar with joysticks)mActor->setLinearVelocity(stickPushed*maxSpeed) (where stickPushed is how much from 0 to 1 how far the stick is pushed forward). Getting the idea I'm after?

The problem is that mSubject is a character, and I cannot use setLinearVelocity.

mSubject->getNxController()->getActor()->setLinearVelocity(NxVec3(0,0,1));
doesn't seem to do something.

mSubject->getNxController()->move(NxVec3(-0.4,0.0,0.0),0,0.01f,collisionFlags,sharpness);
seems to do something, but I go through the groundplane once I start to move.

Any hints how to do this the correct way ?
I would like to have continuous collision detection.

greetz,
g

The Character doesn't collide with the ground plane; it's a bug or a feature with PhysX (I can't decide which) and CCD won't happen with Kinematic objects.

actually its not "the ground plane" but rather the ground plane of my static mesh.

How should I move my character betajaen ?
Or should I use an actor/body instead ?

thanks !