Targeting camera to a certain part of an imported mesh

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@trevordev

@trevordev

For skeletons, you can attach a mesh to the skeleton and look at that

Nice, it is mostly the same solution as the one in my other thread:

Problem with infinite rays and position of raycast

You are generating a ray per frame in your castRay() function. This function creates an helper which in turn generate a mesh (per frame again). So no wonder why it is slow Why are you generating a ray per frame? (scene.registerBeforeRender is called once a frame) You can create a dummy box, attach your box to the bone with mesh.attachToBone and then attach your ray to this dummy box

This worked also fine for me:

scene.onBeforeRenderObservable.add(()=>{
    camera2.position = newMeshes[0].position.add(new BABYLON.Vector3(0,10,0))
})

@timetocode
Thank you for your explanations and ideas.
I’m planing to make a FPS, so it is supposed to be a multiplayer game.
You have a good point with moving the head with the camera, I didn’t think of that.

Apparently I can’t rotate a bone on its own.
I tried:

botHead = skeleton.bones[4]
botHead.rotation.x = -2; // the same with x/z and other numbers 

But at least the whole mesh looks in the direction of the mouse now (still two dimensional)
Even in first person.

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