I am trying to implement the pick action for my character. I found a sample file called looking-and-gripping tutorial in the samples directory downloaded with panda.
All I did was change Ralph to my model. When I print the parent of the object(tea pot -banana or sword), I find that it is the right hand as I specified in the code, but no object gets rendered to the screen. I cannot figure out the source of the problem. is there a mistake in code or is there something I have to edit in the egg file.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Author: Shao Zhang and Phil Saltzman
# Models and Textures by: Shaun Budhram, Will Houng, and David Tucker
# Last Updated: 2015-03-13
#
# This tutorial will cover exposing joints and manipulating them. Specifically,
# we will take control of the neck joint of a humanoid character and rotate that
# joint to always face the mouse cursor. This will in turn make the head of the
# character "look" at the mouse cursor. We will also expose the hand joint and
# use it as a point to "attach" objects that the character can hold. By
# parenting an object to a hand joint, the object will stay in the character's
# hand even if the hand is moving through an animation.
from direct.showbase.ShowBase import ShowBase
from panda3d.core import AmbientLight, DirectionalLight
from panda3d.core import TextNode, NodePath, LightAttrib
from panda3d.core import LVector3
from direct.actor.Actor import Actor
from direct.task.Task import Task
from direct.gui.OnscreenText import OnscreenText
from direct.showbase.DirectObject import DirectObject
import sys
# A simple function to make sure a value is in a given range, -1 to 1 by
# default
def clamp(i, mn=-1, mx=1):
return min(max(i, mn), mx)
# Macro-like function used to reduce the amount to code needed to create the
# on screen instructions
def genLabelText(text, i):
return OnscreenText(text=text, parent=base.a2dTopLeft, scale=.06,
pos=(0.06, -.08 * i), fg=(1, 1, 1, 1),
shadow=(0, 0, 0, .5), align=TextNode.ALeft)
class LookingGrippingDemo(ShowBase):
def __init__(self):
# Initialize the ShowBase class from which we inherit, which will
# create a window and set up everything we need for rendering into it.
ShowBase.__init__(self)
# This code puts the standard title and instruction text on screen
self.title = OnscreenText(text="Panda3D: Tutorial - Joint Manipulation",
fg=(1, 1, 1, 1), parent=base.a2dBottomRight,
align=TextNode.ARight, pos=(-0.1, 0.1),
shadow=(0, 0, 0, .5), scale=.08)
self.onekeyText = genLabelText("ESC: Quit", 1)
self.onekeyText = genLabelText("[1]: Teapot", 2)
self.twokeyText = genLabelText("[2]: Candy cane", 3)
self.threekeyText = genLabelText("[3]: Banana", 4)
self.fourkeyText = genLabelText("[4]: Sword", 5)
# Set up key input
self.accept('escape', sys.exit)
self.accept('1', self.switchObject, [0])
self.accept('2', self.switchObject, [1])
self.accept('3', self.switchObject, [2])
self.accept('4', self.switchObject, [3])
base.disableMouse() # Disable mouse-based camera-control
self.camera.setPos(0, -15, 2) # Position the camera
# self.eve = Actor("models/eve", # Load our animated charachter
# {'walk': "models/eve_walk"})
self.eve = Actor("models/boy3/jack", # Load our animated charachter
{'walk': "models/boy3/jack_walk-Armature|mixamo.com|Layer0.007.egg"})
self.eve.reparentTo(self.render) # Put it in the scene
# Now we use controlJoint to get a NodePath that's in control of her neck
# This must be done before any animations are played
self.eveNeck = self.eve.controlJoint(None, 'modelRoot', 'Neck')
print("eve Neck",self.eveNeck)
# We now play an animation. An animation must be played, or at least posed
# for the nodepath we just got from controlJoint to actually effect the
# model
self.eve.actorInterval("walk", playRate=2).loop()
# Now we add a task that will take care of turning the head
self.taskMgr.add(self.turnHead, "turnHead")
# Now we will expose the joint the hand joint. ExposeJoint allows us to
# get the position of a joint while it is animating. This is different than
# controlJonit which stops that joint from animating but lets us move it.
# This is particularly usefull for putting an object (like a weapon) in an
# actor's hand
self.rightHand = self.eve.exposeJoint(None, 'modelRoot', 'RightHand')
print("rih",self.rightHand)
# This is a table with models, positions, rotations, and scales of objects to
# be attached to our exposed joint. These are stock models and so they needed
# to be repositioned to look right.
positions = [("teapot", (0, -.66, -.95), (90, 0, 90), .4),
("models/candycane", (.15, -.99, -.22), (90, 0, 90), 1),
("models/banana", (.08, -.1, .09), (0, -90, 0), 1.75),
("models/sword", (.11, .19, .06), (0, 0, 90), 1)]
self.models = [] # A list that will store our models objects
for row in positions:
np = self.loader.loadModel(row[0]) # Load the model
np.setPos(row[1][0], row[1][1], row[1][2]) # Position it
np.setHpr(row[2][0], row[2][1], row[2][2]) # Rotate it
np.setScale(row[3]) # Scale it
# Reparent the model to the exposed joint. That way when the joint moves,
# the model we just loaded will move with it.
np.reparentTo(self.rightHand)
self.models.append(np) # Add it to our models list
self.switchObject(0) # Make object 0 the first shown
self.setupLights() # Put in some default lighting
# This is what we use to change which object it being held. It just hides all of
# the objects and then unhides the one that was selected
def switchObject(self, i):
for np in self.models:
np.hide()
self.models[i].show()
# This task gets the position of mouse each frame, and rotates the neck based
# on it.
def turnHead(self, task):
# Check to make sure the mouse is readable
if base.mouseWatcherNode.hasMouse():
# get the mouse position as a LVector2. The values for each axis are from -1 to
# 1. The top-left is (-1,-1), the bottom right is (1,1)
mpos = base.mouseWatcherNode.getMouse()
# Here we multiply the values to get the amount of degrees to turn
# Restrain is used to make sure the values returned by getMouse are in the
# valid range. If this particular model were to turn more than this,
# significant tearing would be visable
self.eveNeck.setP(clamp(mpos.getX()) * 50)
self.eveNeck.setH(clamp(mpos.getY()) * 20)
return Task.cont # Task continues infinitely
def setupLights(self): # Sets up some default lighting
ambientLight = AmbientLight("ambientLight")
ambientLight.setColor((.4, .4, .35, 1))
directionalLight = DirectionalLight("directionalLight")
directionalLight.setDirection(LVector3(0, 8, -2.5))
directionalLight.setColor((0.9, 0.8, 0.9, 1))
self.render.setLight(self.render.attachNewNode(directionalLight))
self.render.setLight(self.render.attachNewNode(ambientLight))
demo = LookingGrippingDemo() # Create an instance of our class
demo.run() # Run the simulation
Here are the links of the model and the walk animation egg files that I am using.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A_GredEYmyjlLuAIYdBYSHSTN0IU-2uf/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C4eYEVnEfmkGXxeEuBbojmZBBGgjxQlo/view?usp=sharing
