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Items that collide with meshRoads cause warnings (solved)

by Nils Eikelenboom · in Torque 3D Professional · 02/19/2014 (7:30 am) · 3 replies

The items in my (non-PhysX) missions that are placed on meshRoads will cause a huge amounts of warnings in the console:
MeshRoad::collideBox() - not yet implemented!

So I guess something is not right in the way the items collide with meshRoads.

The warning comes from this in meshRoad.cpp:

bool MeshRoad::collideBox(const Point3F &start, const Point3F &end, RayInfo* info)
{   
   Con::warnf( "MeshRoad::collideBox() - not yet implemented!" );
   return Parent::collideBox( start, end, info );
}

I could of course just comment out the warning, but isn't there a bit more elegant way to solve this issue?
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Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
T3D Steering Committee
#1
02/19/2014 (12:43 pm)
Whoah that's odd. AFAIK collideBox was supposed to be used by the editor. Does the collision appear to work fine? If so I'd just remove the warning :P. Or possibly figure out where collideBox is being called from, and why it's that instead of castRay.

Torque Owner Nils Eikelenboom
Studio DimSum
#2
02/19/2014 (6:58 pm)
Not sure yet, but I thought that MeshRoad collision is different from others like terrain etc. The collision mesh (box) for items is generated dynamically. Perhaps do these 2 don't work well together, and castRay won't work. Need to dive in a little bit more.

The actual collision works (like you can expect from meshRoads;). I want to be sure if we're not wasting anything with this, before commenting out that warning.

Torque Owner Nils Eikelenboom
Studio DimSum
#3
02/19/2014 (9:46 pm)
While forestCollision.cpp has:

bool Forest::collideBox( const Point3F &start, const Point3F &end, RayInfo *outInfo )
{   
   //Con::warnf( "Forest::collideBox() - not yet implemented!" );
   return Parent::collideBox( start, end, outInfo );
}

and convexShape.cpp does:

bool ConvexShape::collideBox( const Point3F &start, const Point3F &end, RayInfo *info )
{
   return Parent::collideBox( start, end, info );
}

I'll draw the conclusion that I can safely do this in meshRoad.cpp:

bool MeshRoad::collideBox(const Point3F &start, const Point3F &end, RayInfo* info)
{   
   // Con::warnf( "MeshRoad::collideBox() - not yet implemented!" );
   return Parent::collideBox( start, end, info );
}

Thanks for your support @Daniel :)