A time ago I posted a similiar question on this forum about bone rotation. The response on that post resulted in the following code, which worked for my previous project. But now I implemented it in a other project and now I get weird results. Here's the code;

var temp3[3];
var temp4[3];
var bone_angle[3]; // a vector that will hold the pan, tilt and roll angles
temp3.x = (screen_size.x / 2);
temp3.y = (screen_size.y / 2);
temp3.z = 10;
vec_for_screen(temp3,camera);

temp4.x = (screen_size.x / 2);
temp4.y = (screen_size.y / 2);
temp4.z = 8000;
vec_for_screen(temp4,camera);

trace_mode = ignore_me+ignore_passable;
target = trace(temp3,temp4);


var tPos[3];
var tAng[3];
ent_bonerotate(my, "bone22", nullvector);
vec_diff(tPos, Target, my.x);
vec_to_angle(tAng, tPos);
vec_sub(tAng, my.pan);
ent_bonerotate(my, "bone22", tAng);

The function should rotate bone22 in such way it points to the target position. The target is based on a trace between two points in the camera view. When I use this code in my new project it rotates the bone22 in every direction. Hope someone can tell me what's wrong with my code? Thanks anyway, Molotov.

you have to reset the bone every frame to it's original position again.
ent_bonereset_all or something it's called.
look it up in the manual.

regards,

Thanks dennis_fantasy for your fast reply. Anyway putting ent_bonereset in it doesn't help, i've already tried that. Thanks anyway, Molotov.

This is a FPP or TPP ?

1. IF FPP you can trace from player and not from camera
2. If TPP you may trace from camera not from 10 quants front of camera
Maybe something like this:
Code:

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ent_animate(me,NULL,0,0);
vec_set(temp,target.x);
vec_sub(temp,my.x);
vec_to_angle(tAng,temp);
ent_bonarotate(my,"bone22", tAng);

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Hey Tompo, thanks for your reply. Your code does the same as my code part. The effect what occurs is that the bone22 pan's according to the camera.pan. What I want is that the bone22 tilt's according tot the camera.tilt. And then points towards the target.x. Hope this makes any sense.

By the way, it's a TPP and I changed the 10 quants to 1000, but it still doesn't work. Thanks anyway, Molotov.

Is there anyone that can help me, help would be much appreciated. Thanks anyway, Molotov.