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Anteworld - Outerra Game => Modding: Importer, Tools & Utilities => JavaScript development => Topic started by: zzz on September 19, 2016, 06:55:18 pm

Title: find_object arguments
Post by: zzz on September 19, 2016, 06:55:18 pm

In the world interface, what are the purposes and arguments of find_object, find_object2, find_object_mesh, and find_object_point?

Putting in random values returns me the ECEF positions of objects when the camera is within their bounding box. Was wondering if I could use it to get the positions of all objects in a scene.

Title: Re: find_object arguments
Post by: cameni on September 20, 2016, 02:35:06 pm

These take parameters that define a single ray, and return the object hit by it. Getting the positions of all objects would be likely too expensive, but sometimes it is used, for example for line-of-sight computation. Usually you'd spread it over several frames though.

Title: Re: find_object arguments
Post by: SteelRat on September 20, 2016, 05:49:23 pm

Quote from: cameni on September 20, 2016, 02:35:06 pm

These take parameters that define a single ray, and return the object hit by it. Getting the positions of all objects would be likely too expensive, but sometimes it is used, for example for line-of-sight computation. Usually you'd spread it over several frames though.

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$world.nearest_objects(pos/*ECEF*/, radius/*radius of the sphere within which a search will be*/)
?

alternatively an easier solution.