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Problem with raycast

by Bristow · in Torque Game Engine · 08/01/2006 (9:21 am) · 1 replies

Ok I've basically been using this for a bot's line of site:

%searchMasks = ($TypeMasks::playerObjectType);  
%pos = (VectorAdd(%this.getTransform(), "0 0 1")); 
%end = (VectorAdd(%this.getTransform(), "0 60 1"));


%scanTarg = ContainerRayCast (%pos, %end, %searchMasks, %this);

So it looks 60 feet ahead on the y-axis to get the end position. But the obvious problem I realize now is that this just projects the line 60 feet on the Y, so if I turn any of my bots they line of site will still be going in the same ditrection.

I was wondering is there a way to make a ray cast go from, a bot's face (I figured %this.geteyepostion) to 60 feet or w/e amount in the direction that the bot is facing
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Torque Owner Stefan Lundmark
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08/01/2006 (10:05 am)
Use the bots eye point and project a vector from there.

%startPoint = %bot.getEyeTransform ();
    %startPoint = getWords ( %startPoint, 0, 2 ); // Probably not needed.
    %eyeVector = %bot.getEyeVector ();
    %eyeVector = VectorScale ( %eyeVector, 60 );
    %endPoint = VectorAdd ( %startPoint, %eyeVec );