updating synced objects using third party components

[msimbao]

Hi. Your project is awesome and i can't believe all the different stuff you can do with it and the different options it opens up. I wanted to ask if it is possible to continuously update custom entities that are synced using third party components like super-hands or click-drag. I've been trying for a while but can't seem to get the server to update the positions and rotations for the second viewer. Would ownership transfer help with that?

[haydenjameslee]

Yes its definitely possible to move objects (as long as your client currently owns them) using super-hands. I suspect you are not syncing the correct entity's position and rotation. By default only the top-level entity's position and rotation are synced. If you provide an example showcasing what you think should work I can provide more help. (check out glitch.com for an easy way to make an example).

[msimbao]

Hi Hayden. thanks for the quick reply! Here's an example which is just a bare-bones remix of your basic naf glitch example.

https://glitch.com/edit/#!/bio-gas?path=public/index.html

I was trying to sync a box so that it can be dragged by both users or just one and the other is still able to see the action.

[netpro2k]

Note that one tricky bit about super-hands in particular is that aframe-physics-system uses a quaternion component to do its rotation, so you will specifically need to sync that. See https://github.com/mozilla/mr-social-client/blob/experiment/super-hands/src/network-schemas.js#L30

[msimbao]

Hi netpro2k, thanks for the response. Adding the quaternion component did help out but apparently the problem was with my code. I just found it and saw that i wasn't adding the progressive-controls component and grabbable components to the correct entities. I was putting them all together but instead had to seperate them.

  <a-entity id="mine" grabbable networked="template:#box-template;showLocalTemplate:true" position="0 1 0" >
 </a-entity>

I'm still having a problem with syncing and the only way it worked was with a glitch in the java o.o (i think the second square brace shouldn't exist at the end)

var boxSchema = {
template: '#box-template',
components: [
"position",
"rotation",
"scale",
"rotation",
"quaternion",
]

    ]
  };
  NAF.schemas.add(boxSchema);

but ill come figure it out. Thanks so much for all the help!

[netpro2k]

You have rotation in there twice, you actually don't need it at all since the quaternion component actually removes rotation. Also you are correct, there is an extra ]

var boxSchema = {
  template: '#box-template',
  components: [
    "position",
    "scale",
    "quaternion"
  ]
};
NAF.schemas.add(boxSchema);