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Function "containerRayCast " with trouble

by Zhangbin · in Technical Issues · 12/18/2005 (5:49 am) · 1 replies

I want to do some "eye's picking" with following script code.

%startPoint = %client.player.getEyePoint();
%Vector = VectorScale(VectorNormalize(%client.player.getEyeVector()),100);
%endPoint = VectorAdd(%startPoint,%Vector);
%obj = GetWord(containerRayCast(%startPoint,%endPoint,0xffffffff,%client.player),0);
echo("========FindObject id:"@%obj@" | player id:"@%client.player@"=========");

Then ,i got the object id in "%obj",but it is not the object (type: TSStatic ) in the center of the player's screen, just the terrain block under it! Why?
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    Torque 3D Owner Martin "Founder" Hoover
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    02/09/2006 (7:52 pm)
    In the raycast line, there is a place to specify masks. In order for the cast to return a specific type of object, you must include the typemask of the object type you want to search for.

    I believe these are all the standard typeMasks:

    $TypeMasks::StaticObjectType
    $TypeMasks::EnvironmentObjectType
    $TypeMasks::TerrainObjectType
    $TypeMasks::InteriorObjectType
    $TypeMasks::WaterObjectType
    $TypeMasks::TriggerObjectType
    $TypeMasks::MarkerObjectType
    $TypeMasks::GameBaseObjectType
    $TypeMasks::ShapeBaseObjectType
    $TypeMasks::CameraObjectType
    $TypeMasks::StaticShapeObjectType
    $TypeMasks::PlayerObjectType
    $TypeMasks::ItemObjectType
    $TypeMasks::VehicleObjectType
    $TypeMasks::VehicleBlockerObjectType
    $TypeMasks::ProjectileObjectType
    $TypeMasks::ExplosionObjectType
    $TypeMasks::CorpseObjectType
    $TypeMasks::DebrisObjectType
    $TypeMasks::PhysicalZoneObjectType
    $TypeMasks::StaticTSObjectType
    $TypeMasks::StaticRenderedObjectType
    $TypeMasks::DamagableItemObjectType

    So for your function, you could specify iy like so:
    %obj = GetWord(containerRayCast(%startPoint,%endPoint,$TypeMasks::StaticTSObjectType,%client.player),0);

    Of course you are not limited to using only one type mask. you could specify a mask like so:

    %mask = ($TypeMasks::VehicleObjectType | $TypeMasks::MoveableObjectType |
         $TypeMasks::StaticShapeObjectType | $TypeMasks::InteriorObjectType | 
         $TypeMasks::ItemObjectType);

    Then simply insert the variable %mask into the rayCast.