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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Entering buildings on a 'world' created in Mapscape

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GeeBee
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Posted: 21st Sep 2010 21:00 Edited at: 21st Sep 2010 21:17
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Aim: To produce a lightmapped, (mostly) outdoors, landscape setting with some buildings/houses that can be entered by the player.

Problem: If I construct this world in Mapscape (thus also enabling easy lightmapping), it exports all 'objects' to a single .dbo or .x file. When loaded into DBPro & collision system (Sparky's) is active, the player cannot enter the buildings, as they are seen as solid hills (I presume).

Am I missing a really obvious solution? Are all world editors going to produce the same issue?

(Info: The original landscape and house were dbo files, inserted into Mapscape as objects - ie, not created within Mapscape from scratch, if this is relevant.)
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revenant chaos
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Posted: 21st Sep 2010 22:28
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What code are you using to setup the objects with sparkys, and what code are you using to detect the collision?
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Attached is an example exported dbo from mapscape. It was constructed from 2 objects: 1x terrain, 1x arch. The export 'merges' them into a single file.

I used Sparky's to 'SetupComplexObject' and then used my collision code which works fine elsewhere. I can post example if you think that's a potential problem area, but my assumption is that this is not the issue.
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Neuro Fuzzy
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Try raycasting through the middle of the arch to make sure its not your collision code. Odds are - if you're using sphere collision or something - the sphere's too big.

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That object seem to work fine for me, I have attached the project that I used to test it.
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RC - Having now eaten a rather large humble pie with a Trilby side dish, you were absolutely correct in the first place ref my collision code being at fault.

Lost in the depths of time, I had a collision 'system' that worked for a world created directly in DBPro (ie seperate terrain & independent objects). Replacing these items using the .dbo file created in a map editor [as a trial] unsurprisingly required mods to the original collision code - but I failed to see it.

Thank you (& Neuro Fuzzy) for your assistance.

Habits can get you into trouble sometimes (unless you are a nun....)
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2010 03:20
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No problem, I am glad you got it sorted out.
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