Question on LINEPICK
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| I have created a sphere and scaled it by a factor of 20. Next I search with LinePick command to find that sphere. It seems to me that the LinePick only registers a hit when I point it right at the center of that sphere. So.. Does that command ignore the scaling? Would using a sphere created from a mesh solve this? Or is there a better way? Or,heaven forbid,is that command just fubar. |
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| Linepick works fine. Post some code so we can have a look. Have you set the spheres pick mode? Should be polygon mode |
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| yep pickmode 2 |
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| As Matty said, Linepick works just fine. |
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| Does scalemesh need to be used, rather than scale entity? It's been a while since I used it, but it does work fine :) |
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| Ross C. Thanks.I'll give that a try today. I've used blitz for many years but been away for a couple now. It does seem to me I remember seeing this "scaling" problem with linepick at that time. Searched the forums earlier but found nothing. I will get back with the results. |
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| Linepick should work with entity scale - if it doesn't, that's probably a bug. On the other hand... Linepick's also really, really slow. My own preference for a while has been to ditch it altogether and use ColDet. |
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| practice=creatsphere() scaleentity practice 20,20,20 PositionEntity pract,1040,40,600 entitypickmode practice,2 LinePick(1040,20,400,1040,20,1100,10) cc=PickedEntity() If cc<>0 Then Stop NO ENTITY GETS PICKED....WHATS UP By the way,in my code,if the another entity colides with "practice" anywhere in the scaled range it reacts properly no matter where it hits.So there is no problem with constructing the entity although the above may not include all the details. Thanks for any help. As I recall reading "linepick" might get messed-up in locating an item properly. |
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| Remember your last 3 parameters in the linepick code are vectors. You don't specifiy co-ords. |
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| Oh jeez. I had that ok for the "Z" element but of course "X" and "Y" were wrong. Stupid is as Stupid does. Thanks so much Ross. You having been helping out here since I can remember. And thanks to you others for the answers also. |
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| Nps man! |
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