Avatars in an array and link/unlink

[betancourtb82]

I posted this last week and still have not received a response. Please help. I have to get this done sometime this week and I would appreciate the help. If it would help, I can include the code for the entire program.

Thank you

[tobin]

At a quick glance the code looks sound. Can you send as concise a copy as possbile of the simulation that replicates this problem to support@worldviz.com and maybe we can find out what's wrong?

[Gladsomebeast]

Just a guess: Somewhere along the line you are using the same global varable to hold the link/gun/avatar/whatever object. So when you setting up the avatars you are overwriting references to the link/whatever objects you need. Keep these things assoated with the avatars you create.

#Setting up avatar
avatar1.currentWeapon = avatar1.getChild("hand").add( 'gun.wrl')
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#Swap in new weapon
tempWeapon = avatar1.currentWeapon
avatar1.currentWeapon = sidelinedWeapon
sidelinedWeapon = tempWeapon 

avatar1.currentWeapon.parent( avatar1.getChild("hand") )
avatar1.currentWeapon.visible( viz.ON )

sidelinedWeapon.visible( viz.OFF )

[betancourtb82]

That sounds like that might work, however, I'm having a hard time finding the child object for hand and neck. I know you can't just put hand and neck, but I'm not sure where to find what the actual name of the child objects are. The avatar file is above the 1.0MB limit, therefore I cannot attach it as a reference. I did try to right-click on the the avatar in the resources window, but no properties came up.

[Gladsomebeast]

There should be a plus icon next to the avatar in the resources window. Expand that to show bones icon which then has a list of avatar bones

[betancourtb82]

I did that. For this avatar, the hand is named skel_HandRF (for right hand finger). I used the following code. I received the following errors:
** ERROR: Could not find child with name 'skel_HandRF'
** ERROR: Could not find child with name 'skel_HandRF'
** ERROR: Could not find child with name 'skel_Neck'

for x in range(0,3):
 if x == 0:
  male = viz.add(people[2])
  male.scale(.11,.11,.11)
#  GetWeapon(male,0)
  male.currentWeapon = male.getchild('skel_HandRF').add("M16M203.WRL")
  male.tag = 0
  male.threatening = TRUE
  male.appearance = 0
  male.facepic = 0 
 elif x == 1:
  male = viz.add(people[1])
  male.scale(.11,.11,.11)
  male.currentWeapon = male.getchild('skel_HandRF').add("C:\Program Files\Vizard25\resources/phone.3ds")
#  GetWeapon(male,1)
  male.tag = 1
  male.threatening = FALSE
  male.appearance = 0
  male.facepic = 0
 elif x ==2:
  male = viz.add(people[0])
  male.scale(.11,.11,.11)
  male.visible(0,'gz_mave_headwht.cmf')
  male.face(faces[0])
#  GetWeapon(male,2)
  male.currentWeapon = male.getchild('skel_Neck').add("camera.WRL")
  male.tag = 2
  male.threatening = FALSE
  male.appearance = 0
  male.facepic = 0
 male.translate(3*x,-10,10)
 male.rotate(180)
 #Add the avatar to the waiting and lemming list
 waitlist.append(male)
 characters.append(male)

[Gladsomebeast]

To get a bone, use the <VizAvatar>.getbone() fucntion, not getchild.