Parenting a clientside model to your head

[decyg]

Basically, the title, i'm kinda stuck, i've made the model fine, set it's angles and set it's position, but whenever i parent it, it rotates around the feet of my player.

[decyg]

Anyone?

[sintwin]

-snip-

[Kogitsune]

Disable the normal rendering ( cmodel:SetNoDraw( true ) ).
Set the position and angles yourself ( cmodel:SetPos( vec ), cmodel:SetAngles( ang ) ).
Tell it to render ( cmodel:DrawModel( ) ).

That's how I do it and it works for me.

[Lily]

-snip-

[decyg]

Yeah, i don't think you understand(no offence), so heres a video of where it all goes wrong

[media]www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBg4X-09vko[/media]

(There are so many barrels from the different attempts, all result in the same pivot-around-base effect.)
These media tags hate me

[Lily]

Looks like you got a problem putting them into position

[editline]07:03PM[/editline]

You can just screw parenting and use SetPos and SetAngles as Kogitsune, lookup bones on the wiki

[ralle105]

The head has boneID 6 on playermodels:angel:

[decyg]

Bah. I'm confused :c. I set its pos and shiz without parenting it and it spawns, and doesn't move with the player :C bawww

[ralle105]

Try calling :SetupBones() between positioning it and drawing it.

[decyg]

Yep, same error, doesn't move with the player.

[ralle105]

Wait, you're doing it in a renderhook right? D:

[decyg]

Wait what. What's a renderhook? :c I'm useless.
I got it working by using a think hook, but it likes to lag behind my player when i run.

[Lily]

Show us some code and we might be able to help

[decyg]

I don't really need help with the code now, I'm just wondering what a render hook is.

[ralle105]

It's where rendering is done:downs:

"PostDrawOpaqueRenderables" is a good hook to use imo, try it instead of think and it shouldn't lag behind:3:

[decyg]

Don't you mean "shouldn't"?
:c

[ralle105]

[QUOTE=decyg;22045984]Don't you mean "shouldn't"?
:c[/QUOTE]

I wrote that:ninja:

[decyg]

Lagging behind again >:C

Code
[lua]

LocalPlayer().Hat = "models/Combine_Helicopter/helicopter_bomb01.mdl"
hat = ents.Create("prop_physics")
hat.Owner = LocalPlayer()

hat:SetModel(LocalPlayer().Hat)
hat:SetNoDraw(true)
hook.Add("PostDrawOpaqueRenderables","kay",function()

attp, atta = LocalPlayer():GetBonePosition( 6 )
attp, atta = LocalToWorld( Vector(10,0,0), Angle(0,90,90), attp, atta );
hat:SetPos( attp )
hat:SetAngles(atta)
hat:SetNoDraw(false)

end)
[/lua]

[decyg]

Anyone?

[|FlapJack|]

Set the position clientside in ENT.Draw

[Kogitsune]

Not tested ( since I don't have the actual code with me ), but this is close to what I used to do this:

[hd]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De7t2SUW-iA[/hd]

[lua]local hats = { }

local function CreateHat( pl, model )
SafeRemoveEntity( pl.Hat )

local hat

hat = ClientsideModel( model, RENDERGROUP_OPAQUE )
hat:SetNoDraw( true )

pl.Hat = hat
hat.Owner = pl
table.insert( hats, hat )
end

local function CleanHats( )
local k, v

for k, v in pairs( hats ) do
if not ValidEntity( v ) then
hats[ k ] = nil
elseif not ValidEntity( v.Owner ) then
SafeRemoveEntity( v )
hats[ k ] = nil
end
end
end

local function DrawHats( )
local k, v, pos, ang

CleanHats( )

for k, v in ipairs( player.GetAll( ) ) do
if not v:Alive( ) and ValidEntity( v.Hat ) then
SafeRemoveEntity( v.Hat )
v = v:GetRagdollEntity( )
end

if not ValidEntity( v.Hat ) then
CreateHat( v, "models/combine_helictoper/helicopter_bomb01.mdl" )
end

pos, ang = v:GetBonePosition( 6 )

v.Hat:SetPos( pos )
v.Hat:SetAngles( ang )
v.Hat:DrawModel( )
end
end

hook.Add( "PostDrawOpaqueRenderables", "Draw Hats.PostDrawOpaqueRenderables", DrawHats )[/lua]

[decyg]

I will be sure to check that out Kogitsune, thanks for the snippet!

|FlapJack| I think you misunderstood, i'm not creating a custom entity and doing stuff, i'm creating a clientside prop and doing stuff.

[|FlapJack|]

You would be better off using a custom entity.

[decyg]

Meh.