[Done] Modificating containerRayCast to work on client
by Tim Reinermann · in Torque 3D Professional · 09/02/2009 (2:21 pm) · 3 replies
Hi,
I'm trying to do a Raycast among the Clientobjects.
Since the Consolfunction "containerRayCast" (sceneObject.cpp line 222) only works for Serverobjects I have to change that Function or write a second "containerRayCastClient" Function.
My favourite solution would be to just change the function, instead of writing a second one:
The point is ... is there a static "isClient" function or anything of that kind?
btw ... i aware of client, server and ghost ids ^^ (just to save you some writing work)
Greetings ^^
I'm trying to do a Raycast among the Clientobjects.
Since the Consolfunction "containerRayCast" (sceneObject.cpp line 222) only works for Serverobjects I have to change that Function or write a second "containerRayCastClient" Function.
if (gServerContainer.castRay(start, end, mask, &rinfo) == true)
ret = rinfo.object->getId();My favourite solution would be to just change the function, instead of writing a second one:
if (isClient()){
if (gClientContainer.castRay(start, end, mask, &rinfo) == true)
ret = rinfo.object->getId();
} else {
if (gServerContainer.castRay(start, end, mask, &rinfo) == true)
ret = rinfo.object->getId();
}The point is ... is there a static "isClient" function or anything of that kind?
btw ... i aware of client, server and ghost ids ^^ (just to save you some writing work)
Greetings ^^
#2
The "correct" approach is to create a copy of the containerRayCast(), rename it to clientContainerRayCast() and have it check the client container instead.
09/02/2009 (3:35 pm)
There isn't a isClient() function. At most you can query whether an object is a serverObject or a clientObject. Outside of objects, there isn't a distinction between whether some code is running as client or server.The "correct" approach is to create a copy of the containerRayCast(), rename it to clientContainerRayCast() and have it check the client container instead.
#3
09/07/2009 (4:16 am)
hm ok. I wanted to save some codelines because client- and server-version of the ConsoleMethod now only differ in a single line. But thx though :) 
Torque Owner Ivan Mandzhukov
Liman3D
castray can work on both.
You can use something like this:
U32 mask = sYourCollisionMask; RayInfo collisionInfo; Container* pContainer = isServerObject() ? &gServerContainer : &gClientContainer; if (pContainer->castRay(startpos, endpos, mask, &collisionInfo)) {... }EDIT:oh,now i see you are asking for TorqueScript.