Is there an "easy" way to make specific parts of a player "interactive"?
by Kyrah Abattoir · in Torque 3D Beginner · 09/27/2012 (3:25 pm) · 4 replies
So i was thinking, most games use hitboxes to detect headshots, would it be possible to use this to make interactive parts on a player?
I assume it would involve tracing a vector to detect what was interacted with?
Examples:
-Steal a player's holstered gun by pointing at it and "using" it (whatever that might be).
-Use a teammeate's backpack mounted radio.
-"Visual" paperdoll where you can drag and drop pieces of equipment to and from a 3D representation of the player.
I assume it would involve tracing a vector to detect what was interacted with?
Examples:
-Steal a player's holstered gun by pointing at it and "using" it (whatever that might be).
-Use a teammeate's backpack mounted radio.
-"Visual" paperdoll where you can drag and drop pieces of equipment to and from a 3D representation of the player.
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#2
Ron's example above would work perfectly fine, and is artist controlled, but other ways you could go about it is mounting triggers(there was a resource to do this) and raycasting against them, or mounting item or a custom equipment class to a mountpoint, and raycasting against it, and executing custom code that way.
09/27/2012 (10:51 pm)
There's actually several ways you can approach this.Ron's example above would work perfectly fine, and is artist controlled, but other ways you could go about it is mounting triggers(there was a resource to do this) and raycasting against them, or mounting item or a custom equipment class to a mountpoint, and raycasting against it, and executing custom code that way.
#3
09/28/2012 (1:32 pm)
okay so a mounted object can be raycasted against without needing a custom hitbox in the player model? 
#4
If the ray comes back that it hit an invisi-switch, the switch datablock would have information on what to execute if hit.
Is that similar to the mounted triggers?
09/28/2012 (2:16 pm)
I was thinking along the lines of invisible boxes (mounted to player or just existing in the world) that have their own type. Keyboard "U" button starts a function that casts a ray setup to only collide with these invisi-switches. The ray would have to have limited distance or it would return false positives.If the ray comes back that it hit an invisi-switch, the switch datablock would have information on what to execute if hit.
Is that similar to the mounted triggers?
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