When entity on pick mode

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Hardcoal (Posted April) [#1]

Hi.. If all my entities are in pickmode Does it make the engine slower?

Matty (Posted April) [#2]

Only when you perform a pick for an instant.

Hardcoal (Posted April) [#3]

so its ok to leave them all on pickmode 2 ?

RemiD (Posted April) [#4]

Yes it will take more time if you have many entities set as pickable. some ways to decrease the time it takes to camerapick/linepick : ->use entityradius or entitybox or low details meshes for pickables ->before throwing the camerapick/linepick, check if the entities you want to pick are in range (with a distance check), then set as pickable only those who are reachable

Hardcoal (Posted April) [#5]

Cool remi. Good idea there..

RemiD (Posted April) [#6]

A way to quickly unset the entities which have been set pickable, after a camerapick/linepick, is to put the kind (list name) and the index/handle of each entity that you set pickable in a temporary list, then use this list (after you got the informations about the results of the pick) to set the pickmode of these entities to not pickable.