Problems with getting head bone rotation right
Hello,
I am trying to write some code that causes a head to turn and face an object. I looked at the lookat() commands, and those didn't do what we were looking for, so I am writing it from scratch. Now, I have a routine that takes two points and gives the euler angle that will point the first at the second. I can use this to turn the camera towards an object. However, when I try to do the same thing with the head or neck bone of an avatar, it does not work like I expected. The code is here: def GetTargetAngleToFace(position1, position2): # Find horizontal target angle x_pos = position1[X_POS] - position2[X_POS] z_pos = position1[Z_POS] - position2[Z_POS] horiz_angle = math.degrees(math.atan2(x_pos, z_pos)) #find vertical target angle vert_x = math.sqrt(x_pos*x_pos + z_pos*z_pos) y_pos = position1[Y_POS] - position2[Y_POS] vert_angle = -math.degrees(math.atan2(y_pos, vert_x)) #print "Angles: H: " + str(horiz_angle) + " V: " + str(vert_angle) return [horiz_angle, vert_angle, 0] target_euler = GetTargetAngleToFace(self.ObjectToFollowWithHead.g etPosition(mode = viz.ABS_GLOBAL), self.HeadBone.getPosition(mode = viz.ABS_GLOBAL)) self.HeadBone.setEuler(target_euler, mode = viz.ABS_GLOBAL) where self.HeadBone is the locked 'Bip01 Head' of the vcc_female model that comes with vizard. What I get is the head tilting to not at all the same euler as target_euler. For that matter, if I just get the current euler of the head and change one element of it, then put it back in with setEuler in viz.ABS_GLOBAL mode, I get a different value when I do a getEuler in viz.ABS_GLOBAL mode. So I figure I am doing something wrong. Could anyone help me here? Thanks, Christian |
You should be able to use the bone.lookat command to have the head face a certain position. Here is a sample script:
Code:
import viz |
We require finer control than lookat provides, but I solved the problem - it appears that mode = viz.ABS_GLOBAL does not work in python, though I used viz.AVATAR_WORLD
Thanks for the help in any case. Christian |
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