How to find which cube face my object is hitting?

[Kaushik]

Question is about my half complete game. Here is my game: http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#KBHU0#12

Use Arrow Keys to turn the cube. Game objective is to align the cube to catch the same color slab.

Question: When the slab hit the cube (function checkHit()), how do I decide if the color of slab and the that side of the cube is the same?

I am new to game development. Any suggestions on my code is very welcome.

Another question: Press Up (watch direction of turn), then press Left, now again Up - notice that direction is reversed. How to correct this (to keep the same direction)?

-Kaushik

 

 

 

[GameMonetize]

Hello you should use scene.pickWithRay to decide which face should be selected: http://doc.babylonjs.com/classes/2.2/Scene#pickwithray-ray-predicate-fastcheck-rarr-pickinginfo-classes-2-2-pickinginfo-

For your second question you can use mesh.rotate (http://doc.babylonjs.com/overviews/How_Rotations_and_Translations_Work) with local system reference

[Kaushik]

Than you for reply. However I am still lost.

Once I call pickWithRay, how I do I find out which side (face) of the mainCube it hit?

      var rayPick = new BABYLON.Ray(slabObj.slab.position, mainBox.position);
      var pickInfo = scene.pickWithRay(rayPick, function (item) {
        console.log("Found hit", item);
      });
      console.log("PickInfo", pickInfo);

Callback function does find mainCube. But the pickInfo.hit is false!

Side question: Why the 2 callbacks are fired by pickWithRay? Is it for each side of the cube?

Check line 92 on

http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#KBHU0#14

 

 

[Temechon]

pickwithray doesn't work with callbacks. See the doc here: http://doc.babylonjs.com/classes/2.2/Scene#pickwithray-ray-predicate-fastcheck-rarr-pickinginfo-classes-2-2-pickinginfo-

The second parameter is a function that should return 'true' if the mesh can be selected, or 'false' if it isn't.

That's why it's called twice in your example: you have 2 meshes.

[KosLooney]

Hey kaushik,

The 2nd parameter needs to be a direction, not the position from the mainbox (which is BABYLON.Vector3(0, 0, 0)). http://doc.babylonjs.com/classes/2.2/Ray

example:
var rayPick = new BABYLON.Ray(slabObj.slab.position, new BABYLON.Vector3(0, -1, 0));

back    BABYLON.Vector3(0, 0, -1).
down    BABYLON.Vector3(0, -1, 0).
forward    BABYLONVector3(0, .0, 1).
left    BABYLON.Vector3(-1, 0, 0).
right    BABYLON.Vector3(1, 0, 0).
up    BABYLON.Vector3(0, 1, 0).