Detecting if players is indoors (Need Help)

#1 Cast a ray down below the player. If it hits an interior object they are indoors. If you have some interior objects that are not building you could flag them to not count as indoors.

#2 Thanks for the tip.

Seems i have to do some playing arround with the engine now :).

#3 Naw, a raycast is very simple. It can be done 100% in script. Here a snippit from my code!

%player = %client.player;
   %eye = %player.getEyeVector();
   %vec = vectorScale(%eye, 200);
   %startPoint = %player.getEyeTransform();
   %endPoint = VectorAdd(%startPoint,%vec);

   %searchMasks = $TypeMasks::VehicleObjectType; //You can do InteriorObjectType
   
   %object = ContainerRayCast (%startPoint, %endPoint, %searchMasks, %player); 

	
    if(%player.isMounted == false)
	{
  	 	if(%object)
   		{
      		//echo("Maybe we have something?");


                //If its an interior type, maybe run a check such as 
                // %pie = %object.getID();
                // if(%pie.isBuilding == "1") { DO STUFF}


      		onMountVehicle(%vehicle, %player, %object.getID());
			%player.mounted = %object.getID();
			%player.isMounted = true;
   		}
   		if(!%object)
   		{ 
			
      		//echo("No Bites Yet");
   		}
	}
	else {
		onPlayerDismount(%vehicle, %player, %player.mounted);
		//echo("Your Mounted! OMGASH");
	}
//	echo(%object);

(The Echo Statements, are just for debugging purposes.)

#4 You could also just setup triggers at the entrances of the buildings that toggle an indoor/outdoor flag.

#5 Well triggers are great idea, but they will force me to put a trigger on every building, and to set a clear this flags in a lot of situations like death.

On the other hand the problem of raycasting is start and end points, i think the best way to check if you are inside a building is raycasting from a position over the player, down to the player, or vice versa (Mostly to check for a roof presence).
Becouse if you are outside a building pointing at it, and you raycast from the eye, the program will assume you are indoors.

Thanks Chris for the example BTW.

#6 You should take a look at

bool InteriorInstance::getPointInsideScale(const Point3F & pos, F32 * pScale) in interior/interiorInstance.cc

#7 Thanks a lot Matt, i was too busy separating server and client code to check this out , i will test this when i wake up