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How can I check if the player is on or in an interior?

by mm · in Torque Game Engine · 11/05/2003 (1:52 pm) · 4 replies

Hi, I am trying to get my bots to chase the player or other bots into or on top of interiors. How would I approach this? How can I access an interior's bounding area? I am really not sure where to start here. If anybody could point me in this direction I would really appreciate it. :)

Thanks!

Matt
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Torque Owner Badguy
#1
11/05/2003 (2:04 pm)
Sure,
by checking the InteriorInstance class
you will find some methods there for such a feat.

I believe it is called IsPointInside or something.

im not sure how you want to handle the bot moving around in the interior tho...
that is a whole new ballgame.

Torque Owner mm
#2
11/06/2003 (3:01 pm)
Hey Badguy,

Thanks allot for the help! I haven't dug into it just yet because I was swamped today. I plan to check it out ASAP. Once again thanks for the help, I really appreciate it. :)

Matt

Torque Owner Badguy
#3
11/06/2003 (4:13 pm)
Hey no trouble :)

but after a quick look that is not the correct name(usage?)
of the function.

it is actually:
U32 InteriorInstance::getPointZone(const Point3F& p)
which will return the zone id that the point is in.

as well there is:
bool InteriorInstance::getPointInsideScale(const Point3F & pos, F32 * pScale)
which overall looks pretty confucious.

I guess it is not much to do with it.

anyhow you can easily check the bounds of the interior.
simply :
getObjBox();
getWorldBox();

or even:
getWorldSphere();

Torque Owner mm
#4
11/07/2003 (8:43 am)
Hey Badguy,

Thanks for your help again, it really helped me out! Now what I am working on is like you said getting them to move around once they are inside. I stumbled over David's thread here and think it might be able to help.

www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=8126

Matt :)