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Ok, I know the tutorials cover doing collision detection based off of what you are looking at, however I need to do that with where the mouse is based off of+the camera position.
Is there an easy way to do collision detection with the mouse without haveing to have the camera follow the mouse?
This has been covered quite a few times. You can find it in the documentation quite easily, or just search the forums for getSceneNodeFromScreenCoordinatesBB.