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How to parse the result of CastCollision

by Teddy Setiawan Wijaya · in Torque Game Builder · 10/02/2006 (1:55 am) · 6 replies

Hi All!

A newbie question here....;-(

Does anyone have example code on how to parse the result of castCollision?

I've read in the reference that castCollision returns a list in the form of "object time contact normal", where object is the object to be collided with.

How do I get the object name from this list?

Many thanks,
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Torque Owner Michael Woerister
#1
10/02/2006 (2:03 am) 
%result = %obj.castCollision(0);

 %object = getWord( %result, 0 );
 %time = getWord( %result, 1 );
 %contact = getWords( %result, 2, 3 ); // these are vectors
 %normal = getWords( %result, 4, 5 ); // ----

Hope that helps.

Torque Owner Teddy Setiawan Wijaya
#2
10/02/2006 (3:16 am)
Michael, thank you for the response.

After I get the object id (for example: 2829), how do I get the object name?

I have tried using 

if (%object == nameToID("frontDoor"))
{
   // some code here
}


but it doesn't seem to work (the response seems to be always false)

Thanks again,

Torque Owner Michael Woerister
#3
10/02/2006 (3:32 am)
Try %object.getName().

And strings have to be compared with the '$=' operator, not '=='.

Torque Owner Ben R Vesco
#4
10/02/2006 (6:48 am) 
%frontDoor = frontDoor.getId();
error("object: " @ %object);
error("frontDoor: " @ %frontDoor);
if (%object == %frontDoor)
{
   // blah
}
Run this code and check out the console. You should see in red the ids of both objects. Make sure they actually are equal as you expect them to be.

Torque Owner John Klimek
#5
10/02/2006 (1:05 pm)
Speaking of castCollision... I don't think it's working properly: www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=50707

Torque Owner Teddy Setiawan Wijaya
#6
10/03/2006 (1:57 am)
Ben, Michael,

Thank you for the information, I use %object.getName() as told by Michael and compare it with the object name (frontDoor) using $=

Works for me...;-)