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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Pick Object picking the wrong objects

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Kieran
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Posted: 27th Oct 2010 04:35
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I've searched all over the forum and couldn't seem to find a solution.

Here is the code i'm using to pick an object from the screen.

selected = pick object(mousex(), mousey(), 2, 2)

Say I have a terrain object and a cube object behind that, when I click the terrain, it selects the cube, and when I click the cube it selects the terrain. Anyone know why it is doing this?
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Hodgey
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Posted: 27th Oct 2010 08:40
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It might be because your start object number and end object number is the same, meaning that the pick object function is only checking for one object. Try '1,2' and see if that works.

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Kieran
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Posted: 27th Oct 2010 09:06
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Ok, I tried a whole bunch of different numbers in there, none of them fixed it. I've decided to stick with 1, 10000 for now, just to make sure it can pick from a wide range of objects. I'm still getting the same problem though, and some objects I can't pick at all.
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Hodgey
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Posted: 28th Oct 2010 10:24
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Would you be able to post some more code?

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Indicium
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Posted: 29th Oct 2010 04:42
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I don't understand... This command will always pick the visible object and the specified screen coordinates.

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OldPMan
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Posted: 29th Oct 2010 11:39
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you anywhere else in the code do not use mousex() and mousey()?

.....already beside..... for all
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Kieran
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2010 07:08
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Sure. Here is the code I was testing with:



I seem to have discovered something that may help though. When I leave the autocam on, it works fine, but when I turn it off, the pick object command suddenly ceases to work. Anyone know why this is? I would rather not use the autocam...
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Hodgey
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2010 07:47
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It works perfectly for me What version of DBPro are you running?

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Kieran
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2010 08:03
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No idea. I just re-downloaded it recently from my online orders thing. I guess that's rather outdated then since I bought it back in 2006 haha. Ok I have version 7.5 now and it works fine. Thanks.
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