PointEntity

Hello,
I have some problem setting up my camera, and I would like to know something about the PointEntity command :
If I have a very large character model and just a little camera just behind it, where does point the camera with the PointEntity command ?? At the feet ? The stomach ? The head ? Does it has something to do with the 3D center point (origin) of the model when we modelize it ?
Thanks in advance.

yep, the 3d center point. if you're in a position where you can't change the center point, just create a pivot, make it a child of the model, move the pivot wherever and point to that instead.

Thanks for your quick answer.

Cameras are points, they cannot be little because they have no size.

Actually they do have size (sort of). If you scale them the near and far clipping ranges will alter.

But I'm just splitting hairs :)

I can't get this function to work. All I've been trying to do is point a mesh towards something else, as a test. I've tried using a camera and a pivot with the mesh, but no luck.

post your code?

I don't think I have it anymore. Can someone give me an example as to how I could turn something as simple as a mesh, towards a pivot? That would be great :)

maybe something like this:

camera=createcamera()

char=loadmesh("hero.3ds")
head=createpivot(char)
translateentity head,0,meshheight(char)/2.0,0

and then in the main loop:

pointentity camera,head

Or maybe you need to use

pointentity camera,head,0

to prevent the camera from rolling over.

You'd best using a sphere, instead of a pivot, to verify it's actually pointing at it :o)