Splitting Max Scene in more mashes to manage waypoints

Troubleshooting General Help
1

Hi Guys,



i am a game programming beginner,

i wish to create a Bot , a simple animation that goes around my level

in a random manner, i want to set waypoints but doing this by code is

such a pain in the ass to i would like to attach them to points in the level,

i wish to know if splitting 3dstudio max scene in multiple meshes would help me.

Please Answer

2

Why not just set the waypoints as nodes in jMP?

3

Excuse me Normen,



actually my level is divided in only two meshes , so

suppose i would create 1 node(waypoint) where could i attach it ?



But more on this, waypoint is taking a vector as parameter not a node.



Please explain me better

4

Open the model in the scene composer, right-click where you want a spawn point. Select “Node” and press “Add at cursor”, rename the node to e.g. “Spawn1”. Save.



Then in the app, do something like this:

[java]

Node model = (Node) assetManager.loadModel(“Scenes/MyLevel.j3o”);

Spatial spawnPoint = model.getChild(“Spawn1”);

myCharacter.setLocalTranslation(spawnPoint.getWorldTranslation());

[/java]

5

Ok Normen ,



thank you very much ,

i already tried to do this but when i right clicked i expected something to hilight so

i thought i was not going the right way,

i will go this way.

6

You have to right-click a geometry so some collision can be detected for the location, you will see the cursor moving to that location then.