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When an entity is attached to the bone a player it automatically inherits that bone's rotation (as you would expect)
however, this is not the case if I attach a player to the bone of an entity, rotate the entity bone
and the player stays put. This is true in both second and third person views.

I am not sure if this is a bug or a 'feature' but if I call set_bone_position() on an entity
it completely disables any animation, even if I call set_animation again afterwards, nothing happens.

I was hoping to make an airplane mod using bone position to 'fake' pitch and roll but this idea
has since been scuppered by the above mentioned problems. I am beginning to wonder if minetest's
entity system will ever be in a consistent, usable state D:

setboneposition affects to all copies of mesh.
I also tryed make airplane mod and added pitch using animation. Each 3 frame pitch change, so i simply found start and end frame.

Pavel_S wrote:setboneposition affects to all copies of mesh.

Sorry, I am not quite sure what you mean by this.

Pavel_S wrote:I also tryed make airplane mod and added pitch using animation. Each 3 frame pitch change, so i simply found start and end frame.

Interesting approach, would be tricky to also implement roll this way but pitch alone would still be better than nothing.

stu wrote:

Pavel_S wrote:setboneposition affects to all copies of mesh.

Sorry, I am not quite sure what you mean by this.

https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/1091

here is setyaw() function, so pitch is not alone.
Another solution for roll-pitch-yaw is like I made in Helicopter mod, I use set_attach() to rotate heli model as needed.

Pavel_S wrote:

stu wrote:

Pavel_S wrote:setboneposition affects to all copies of mesh.

Sorry, I am not quite sure what you mean by this.

https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/1091

here is setyaw() function, so pitch is not alone.
Another solution for roll-pitch-yaw is like I made in Helicopter mod, I use set_attach() to rotate heli model as needed.

Ah thanks, I hadn't seen that one, that's even worse than I thought. Never mind, I think I will just have to forget this idea for now.