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Raycasting in the C++ source

by Quentin Headen · in General Discussion · 06/08/2010 (1:10 am) · 6 replies

Hello everyone! I know how to use the containerRaycast function in Torque Script, but I wanted to do some raycasting with my custom Torque class. How can I do a container raycast in the C++ source side of things?

I am using TGE 1.5.2.

Thanks
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    CloudFire
    #1
    06/08/2010 (3:48 am)
    @Quentin Headen

    The Below forum will help you.

    http://www.torquepowered.com/community/resources/view/2173


    Torque 3D Owner Quentin Headen
    #2
    06/08/2010 (12:11 pm)
    Thanks for your quick response. From what I see in this resource, would it be possible to create the start and ending points in C++ and call the Con::execute method to call the containerRaycast script function in the source?

    This seems like the way to go.

    Thanks

    CloudFire
    #3
    06/09/2010 (5:30 am)
    You are Welcome.

    Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
    T3D Steering Committee
    #4
    06/10/2010 (12:16 am)
    Quentin: Look at Projectile::processTick. It's a matter of calling Container::castRay directly, which means you need a Container object to call it on. Assuming you're inheriting from something like SceneObject, this should be as simple as calling getContainer().

    Calling Con::executef to access an engine-side function is a very backwards solution.

    Torque 3D Owner Quentin Headen
    #5
    06/10/2010 (11:17 am)
    Beautiful solution Daniel! I was pretty sure that a raycasting method existed in the source, but I just didn't know where.

    Thanks again.

    Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
    T3D Steering Committee
    #6
    06/10/2010 (3:36 pm)
    Pleasure! Sometimes the source is quite a jungle to work with ;P.