I'm working on writing a couple of entities that will give my player's head a "look at" effect. Briefly, I'm working in third person, so when there's something of interest around the player, I would like the model to actually -look- at the object, cuing the player to its significance. My working theory is that I create two entities: a head_controller, and then info_head_targets.
head_controller searches the map for every instance of info_head_target, then calculates angles and stores them. When the player nears a target, the controller fires, dynamically changing the head yaw, pitch, and roll to properly look at the target. Targets would be created in hammer with the actual item, and placed where appropriate. I'm trying now to figure out exactly how to calculate these angles. I know there exists pEntity->getabsangles, getvector, getabsorigin, etc, but without any quality tutorials on the subject, I'm completely lost. I don't know how to properly crunch this information, because I don't know how it is returned. Quite frankly, I'm in over my head. But I want to learn this, and I'm not looking for someone to write it for me. If there's anybody who'd be willing to nudge me in the right direction, it'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
