How to make an object stay relative to another object
- by Nick
In the following example there is a guy and a boat. They have both a position, orientation and velocity.
The guy is standing on the shore and would like to board. He changes his position so he is now standing on the boat.
The boat changes velocity and orientation and heads off. My character however has a velocity of 0,0,0 but I would like him to stay onboard. When I move my character around, I would like to move as if the boat was the ground I was standing on.
How do keep my character aligned properly with the boat? It is exactly like in World Of Warcraft, when you board a boat or zeppelin.
This is my physics code for the guy and boat:
this.velocity.addSelf(acceleration.multiplyScalar(dTime));
this.position.addSelf(this.velocity.clone().multiplyScalar(dTime));
The guy already has a reference to the boat he's standing on, and thus knows the boat's position, velocity, orientation (even matrices or quaternions can be used).
