Camera picking

[Rick]

Below is an idea of how I'm doing my main menu. I zoomed out to get a better idea of what it is I'm looking at. The menu will be in 3D. Normally all you'd see is that scene with tree's on it close up to the camera as the background and the white play button is actually a Model:Box() I make in code. When doing camera:Pick() I'm only caring about the box I made in code. I get it a key name "id" a value of "btnNewGame". However, picking the CSG background model is coming back as the btnNewGame box was picked. I can't figure out why this would be.

 

box creation

self.buttonMaterial = Material:Load("UI/play_button.mat")
--self.buttonMaterial:SetBlendMode(1)
self.button = Model:Box()
self.button:SetScale(1, 1, .5)
self.button:SetPosition(0, -20, 2)
self.button:SetMaterial(self.buttonMaterial)
self.button:SetKeyValue("id", "btnNewGame")

 

picking code

function App:MainMenu_Update()
  if self:IsMobile() == true then
     result = self.window:TouchHit(0)
  else
     result = self.window:MouseHit(1)
  end

  local pickinfo = PickInfo()
  local p = self.window:GetMousePosition() 
  local id = ""

  if result == true then

     if self.camera:Pick(p.x, p.y, pickinfo, .5, true) == true then

        id = pickinfo.entity:GetKeyValue("id")

        if id == "btnNewGame" then

           self:Gameplay_Enter()
           self.gameState = "gameplay"
        end
     end
  end
end

 

 

 

[YouGroove]

If you get out the skybox, does it works ?

[Rick]

I think the .5 was to much. I'm using .1 and now it seems to be working.