I have an arrow as view entity which points into the direction of a next target. It works very well, but I want to change the camera.arc, depending on special situations ingame. Though, if I change the camera.arc, the arrows gets transformed, too.

I need a shader (or something else) that renders a view entity with a specific render setting (-> fixed camera arc!).

If you know how to do this (or maybe you did that once already), please contact me soon!

Cheers, Christian

Perhaps you can solve this by using another view for the arrow?

Cheers

... the arrow should be visible in the camera view ...

maybe this gets you started. it has no lighting since i did this in the break at work.

Code:

---

float4x4 matWorld;
float4x4 matProj;
float4x4 matView;

struct VS_IN
{
	float4 pos : POSITION;
	float2 tex : TEXCOORD0;
};

struct VS_OUT
{
	float4 pos : POSITION;
	float2 tex : TEXCOORD0;
	float4 color : COLOR0;
};

VS_OUT mainVS (VS_IN In)
{
	VS_OUT Out;
	float4x4 newProj = matProj;
	newProj[0].x=2; //change those values to your need
	newProj[1].y=2;
	newProj[2].z=2;
	float4x4 mat = mul(mul(matWorld,matView),newProj);

	Out.pos = mul(In.pos,mat);
	Out.tex = In.tex;
	Out.color = float4(0.5,0.5,0.5,1.0);
	return Out;
}

technique mwvp
{
	pass p1
	{
		VertexShader = compile vs_2_0 mainVS();
		PixelShader = null;
	}
}

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hint: you may want to use effect_load till you find the right values...
i hope it helps

Thanks, I will try it out on one of these days!

HeelX, were you able to fix this?

Since converting my project to Lite-C, I noticed that view entities no longer accept any arc value past the camera's. Now all my view entities do not show properly since they use the camera's arc value, where in the past, they would work since I defined another view with a fixed arc value. Even though the entities are assigned to the view with a fixed value, they still use the camera's.arc parameter. I tried Ello's code and could not get it to work, it just makes my view entity invisible.

william, try playing around with the numbers as mentioned in the comment. it was a lot of testing to find the right values...

Hmm... I've tried quite a few numbers, but can't quite seem to get it visible. Would you have a hint of what might work, or at least the range of what I should be trying? What does those numbers represent?

Looks like this was the difference between C-script and Lite-C concerning this for anyone interested.

http://www.coniserver.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/802359/Main/802015/#Post802359