Set start_point for Panda3D useing Blender
How to create a start point position for your maps/models useing blender and Panda3D. When I was following the Roaming Ralph sample code I was unable to recreate the world model to use the start point value. This is how to do it.
Step One:
Create a Vertex or plane, any thing, in the place where you want your start_point to be.
Step Two:
Make sure that you are in Object Mode not edit. Press F7 which will take youto the Object Panel (See Left) and change the name of the object to “start_point” (See Right)
Step Three:
Export useing chiken to egg, and check to see if it worked by pressing “Shift + L”, check the command line to see if it says something like, PandaNode start_point T:m(pos -6.71705 9.45356 5.36108)
You should now be able to get the position of the start point by doing something like this. self.environ.find(“**/start_point”).getPos()
With help from here and here. Hope this helps someone. Comments welcome ^_^