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Asked By | ugly_cat |
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Old Version | Published before Godot 3 was released. |
What would be the best way to implement a lever/switch/button in 3d? I was thinking abstractedly about it and was considering casting a ray from the mouse and if it hit the object within a certain distance then it would trigger a function. Now that I think about it that seems like it’s probably the way to do it…
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Reply From: | CowThing |
Yes I would use ray casting to achieve this. There’s a tuorial on ray casting here: http://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/ray-casting.html
And at the bottom there’s a 3D specific section that talks about making a raycast from the camera to the mouse position.
You can even use groups to help with this. Put the button and any other object that can be interacted with in a group named “Interactive” or something like that. Then make sure to give anything in that group a function called “do_press” or something similar.
Then you can check if the object that the ray hits is interactable and trigger like this:
if collider.is_in_group("Interactive"):
collider.do_press()
Thanks for the extra information!
ugly_cat | 2016-04-04 05:19
I would do something similar, though I would use collider.has_method("interact_on_click") or something similar, instead of is_in_group.
Bojidar Marinov | 2016-04-04 09:27