I am trying to fire a bullet from my tank dynamic node to the mouse position for the last 7 hours now, but the bullet is always flying in another direction. I attached a screen shot of the game. The red X marks the position of the mouse in the game. Don't know why the mouse is not visible in the screen shot. Here is the code I am using to create and move the bullet. The worldCoords are coming from the input handler code below.
public void fireBullet(Vector3f worldCoords)
{
Sphere bullet = new Sphere("bullet" + numBullets++, 8, 8, .1f);
bullet.setModelBound(new BoundingSphere());
bullet.updateModelBound();
rootNode.attachChild(bullet);
/** Move bullet to the camera location */
Vector3f source = new Vector3f(canon.getLocalTranslation().clone());
bullet.getLocalTranslation().set(source);
bullet.setRenderState(bulletMaterial);
bullet.updateGeometricState(0, true);
Vector3f target = new Vector3f(worldCoords.getX(),0,worldCoords.getY());
target = target.subtract(source);
target.setY(0);
bullet.addController(new BulletMover(bullet,target));
bullet.updateRenderState();
}
class BulletMover extends Controller {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
TriMesh bullet;
Vector3f direction;
float speed = 10;
float lifeTime = 3;
The correct solution would be to shot a ray and check the point it hits your game board.
this is how you make such a ray:
Vector2f screenPos = new Vector2f();
// Get the position that the mouse is pointing to
screenPos.set(mouseManager.getMousePosition().clone());
// Get the world location of that X,Y value
Vector3f worldCoords = display.getWorldCoordinates(screenPos, 1.0f);
// Create a ray starting from the camera, and going in the direction
// of the mouse's location
Ray mouseRay = new Ray(camera.getLocation(), worldCoords.subtractLocal(camera.getLocation()));
mouseRay.getDirection().normalizeLocal();
I think its because you have target = target.subtract(source); instead of target = target.add(source); If its going in the exact opposite direction then you could always just multiply the direction vector by a negative scalar ie -1. Not sure if that helps.
Ok, I should have mentioned that the bullet is always flying in the same direction no matter where my mouse is. I think the problem is the mouse input. I made a system out of the mouse coordinates after I translated them into world coordinates, but the result looks like this:
x: -3.9321138E-5 Y: 0.0016851941
x: -0.0026162686 Y: 0.002843772
when I set the target manually to a certain point like Vector3f(6,0,6) it is working. All bullets then fly to this position no matter where my source(tank) is on the map.
Why not just use the actual mouse coordinates and subtract the tank screen coordinates? Instead of converting the mouse coordinates just add the difference between the tanks start position and the top left of the screen to the tanks position.
But at the moment I am only able to get the LocalTranslation of the floor element the ray is going through. Unfortunately the floor elements have a width and height of 1 so I do not have the exact position of the mouse. Is there a way to get the exact coordinates of the point where the ray is going through the floor? Or do I have to make more but smaller floor elements?
I don't remember how you actually get the intersection point when doing picking.
With some math, you could just do this (if you only bother about where on the flat floor you click):
You could check collision/intersection between the ray and the x-z plane (that will be the plane with normal (0,1,0) and constant 0). I assume your floor is at y=0, otherwise change the constant?
Plane plane = new Plane();
plane.setNormal(Vector3f.UNIT_Y.clone());
Vector3f intersection = new Vector3f();
mouseRay.intersectsWherePlane(plane, intersection);
// now intersection holds the coordinates
