hello, i want to create a supporter for a race game that turns his head (pan) to the player all the time

i created a mdl and named the head-bone "head"

Code:

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action car_sprtr
{	
	ent_animate(my,"stand",my.skill2,ANM_ADD + ANM_CYCLE); 

	while(!player){wait(1);}
	
	while(1) 
	{
		vec_set(temp,player.x); 
  		vec_sub(temp,my.x);
		
                ent_bonerotate(me,"head",vector(temp.pan,0,0)); 
                wait(1);
        }
} 

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instead of turning his head to the player it keeps spinning verry fast around his axis.

before the ent_bonerotate, try

var tempvar[3];
vec_to_angle(tempvar,temp);

and then

ent_bonerotate(me,"head",vector(tempvar.pan,0,0));

it still spins

Here's the beginning of my animation function. This code makes my player's head turn (via it's head bone) to look at certain flagged objects (the current objPtr (object pointer)...I have a lot of potential "look at" objects). It constrains the pan and tilt of the head based on the values in the my.skill15/skill15 lines:

Code:

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while(!player) { wait(1); }
while(!objPtr) { wait(1); }
you = objPtr;
ent_animate(me,null,0,0); //Reset Bones
vec_set(my.skill63,you.x);//Stores the position to look at
vec_sub(my.skill63,my.x); //Not its relative
vec_to_angle(temp,my.skill63); //Temp stores the angles needed
vec_sub(temp,me.pan);
temp.pan = ang(temp.pan);
temp.tilt=ang(temp.tilt); //This works fine for me...
//me.skill15 -= (me.skill15-clamp(temp.pan,-70,70)*(abs(temp.pan)<105)*(abs(temp.pan)>30))*0.3*time_step;
//me.skill16 -= (me.skill16-clamp(temp.tilt,-25,25)*(abs(temp.tilt)<55)*(abs(temp.tilt)>35))*0.3*time_step;
my.skill15 -= (my.skill15-clamp(temp.pan,-70,70))*time_step;
my.skill16 -= (my.skill16-clamp(temp.tilt,-25,25))*time_step;
ent_bonerotate(me,"Bip01_Head",vector(me.skill15,me.skill16,0));

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here's what i have in my code:

Code:

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my.skill2=200; // if the player is in this range, the npc turns its head

vec_diff(temp.x, player.x, my.x);
vec_to_angle(temp.pan, temp.x);
my.skill43=ang(temp.pan);

if(vec_dist(player.x, my.x)<my.skill2 && abs(ang(my.pan-my.skill43))<70) 
{
	my.skill41=clamp(my.skill41+0.3*time, 0,1);
}
else
{
	my.skill41=clamp(my.skill41-0.3*time, 0,1);
}
if(my.skill41>0.0001)
{
	my.skill43=ang(my.skill43-my.pan);
	ent_bonerotate(my,"Bone14",vector(my.skill43*my.skill41*0.8,0,0)); // 0.8+0.2 = 1.0
	ent_bonerotate(my,"Bone1",vector(my.skill43*my.skill41*0.2,0,0));
}
 

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The head itself is attached to bone 14, and the neck is attached to bone 1,
you can add more bones for the rotation, but make sure the added number allways makes a total amount of 1.

the added number is the % it rotates towards the correct point

this should work great!
regards,