CameraPick with ProjectionMode=2
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| Hey, i cannot pick entities with camerapick when the camera is set as ortographic projection mode. Is this a limitation or are there any way to do this? |
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| Solved with a very ugly trick. When picking, change projmode to 1, zoom * 1000, then pick, then restore projmode to 2 and zoom to original value. Why this? Because CameraPick uses always Perspective projection to pick, so zooming*1000 appears almost as ortographic... |
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| KuRIx, Ortho camera's are terrible in blitz, I always found that the z-ordering gets really messed up. As you discovered, it's best is to use a normal camera, position it far from the scene and use a high camerazoom zoom. This produces the same effect as ortho view and it's much less fiddly. Stevie. |
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| I believe I got CameraPick working in ortographic mode but you're right often the Z-buffer can be a little dodgy. I solved this with turning on or off WBuffer, depending on what computer the game was running on. |
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| Thanks for your reply, although disabling WBuffer doesn't allow to pick entities correctly with ortographic mode. As i suggested before, to pick an entity in this mode, i change (just before the camerapick() command) to perspective mode, then i zoom by 1000.0, pick, then restore original zoom and ortographic mode. It is not 100% accurate, but it works well. I was having problems with CameraProject() command too. But the same Fake works too... |
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