Selecting a node with the mouse?

d4nm4n · Post by **d4nm4n** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:14 pm

Is this possible? I am making an editor where i can drop instances of some loaded source meshes and need to be able to "get" the node i click on. I could not find any function in the API for this.
Can anyone help?

Thanx

stefbuet · Post by **stefbuet** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:43 pm

In the collision manager you can trow some rays and get colliding node.
The exemple 7 should help you:
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/example007.html

d4nm4n · Post by **d4nm4n** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 11:59 pm

well, i have tried getSceneNodeFromScreenCoordinatesBB but it seems to return the same node intptr no matter what.

SG57 · Post by **SG57** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:29 am

Remember, that is from the bounding box, so if you have a huge node (map level, terrain, floor, etc.) it will default to that since the camera is most likely inside the box.

Seven · Post by **Seven** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:47 am

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... highlight=

d4nm4n · Post by **d4nm4n** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:45 pm

Great thanks!

I realised the problem was in the ID of the camera's pivot.

Still have the probelm that this only semms to work on bounding boxes though, how can i make it so it uses the mesh for picking?