Not a bug but - $Typemasks for Markers Only Work In Editor

T3D 1.1 beta 3 (and beta 2 - haven't checked further back)

win7 32bit

Issue
Spawnsphere/Waypoint don't show up in containerRadiusSearch() at all - thus making them undetectable using raycasts and typemasks.

However they can be found in the hierarchy of gamebase and shapebase (gamebaseObjectType and shapebaseObjectType) BUT only if the editor is open.

Thus meaning that the containerRadiusSearch still cannot detect a spawnsphere/waypoint in-game.

Repeat
Make sure that you have this script function somewhere for testing

function findGamebase()
{
	if(!isObject($Markerlist))
	{
		$MarkerList = new arrayobject();
		MissionCleanup.add($MarkerList);	
	}
			
%playerPos = LocalClientConnection.getControlObject().getPosition();

	$MarkerList.empty();
		
		InitContainerRadiusSearch(%playerPos, 500, $TypeMasks::GameBaseObjectType);

		while ((%obj = containerSearchNext()) != 0)
		{
			$MarkerList.add(%obj, %obj.getClassname());
			echo("in radius search loop");
		}
		$MarkerList.uniqueKey();
		$MarkerList.echo();
}

Start up T3D

Load a level/mission

Stick some waypoints and spawnspheres in it (World Editor -> library -> Scripted Objects -> Misc

Go back to the game - not in the editor.

Bring up the console and type findGameBase() - see the array show the player in the console but no waypoints/spawnspheres

Now go into the World Editor and bring up the console again and type findgamebase() again - see the array show all the waypoints/spawnspheres in the console this time.

These markers can only be found using gamebase/shapebase when the editor is open

Suggest
Make the SpawnSphere/waypoint markers detectable to raycasts/typemasks in-game and not just esoterically hidden in editor, as currently it's impossible to test whether there is a spawnpoint within a containerRadiusSearch --- I guess this means ghosting (but not sure). Suggest add them to the MarkerObjectType which is called a "Path Node" even though it's class is a "Marker".

EDITED to make sense and clear up a misunderstanding I had.

Double edit: Markers also don't show up their typemask until they have been made visible in the editor ...

Triple edit: Going back to 1.0.1 it seems like it's always been this way, though it does appear a little odd that the typemasks of markers don't function in-game.

Post gonk edit:
As Guy points out below, not a bug, though I still think it'd be useful to have some sort of marker (say Waypoint Object ... cos it's actually not doing anything in the engine) that could be detected with raycasts during play.

last edit
Don't consider this a request it's more of an opinion ... moved out of bug forum to general