entitypick dependent on entitysize?
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| Is there any relation to the length of a entitypick to the size of the entity that picks?? I have 2 identical entities in my game right next to each other and they are both set to '80' length. They are picking at different distances though, the smaller picks half the distance of the larger entity |
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| What entitypick mode do the entities use? If it is sphere or box maybe you need to change entity radius/box to suit the scale of the entity. If it is polygon there shouldn't be a problem. |
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| they all use radius, does this affect how far an entity picks? The are picking the same entity. One of the entities that is picking is a copy but scaled down to half the size. Also im getting some weird results with the larger one which is scaled up 1.5 compared the loaded model. How much slower is polygon picking compared to sphere or box? EDIT- After some experiments I found that scaling the entity messes up the entitypicking - which is strange. |
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| Scale does indeed affect pick range. Try this demo, use up and down arrow to change scale. Graphics3D 800,600,32 SetBuffer BackBuffer() cam=CreateCamera() s1=CreateSphere() s2=CreateSphere() c1=CreateCube() PositionEntity cam,-50,50,0 PointEntity cam,c1 EntityPickMode c1,1,False PositionEntity s1,0,0,20 PositionEntity s2,0,0,-20 PointEntity s1,c1 PointEntity s2,c1 s#=1 While Not KeyHit(1) If KeyDown(200) Then s=s+0.1 If KeyDown(208) Then s=s-0.1 ScaleEntity s2,s,s,s RenderWorld Text 0,0,"s1-c1 "+EntityPick(s1,10) Text 0,20,"s2-c1 "+EntityPick(s2,10) Text 0,40,"scale of s2 "+s Flip Wend |
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| Yep, is this a bug or a feature? |
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| Its a suprising but I suppose natural feature. I remember once I had the camera parented to a sphere and scaling the sphere caused the camera to zoom...unexpected but I suppose it's just the way it is and once you know then you just have to code around it. |
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| It should be mentioned in the help files at least |
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