Detecting non-player characters.

NeoD

Hello. I have a 3D kinematic character and I wish he could read signs on walls, panels and talk to <strike>pnj's</strike> others characters like in RPG's.<br /><br />So he must detect the proximity of an object and the good orientation of it ( talking to a back or reading a text on a sign without facing him isn't very convincing ).<br /><br />What's your favorite strategy ? Thanks.

Megalomaniak

place a collision detector in the appropriate orientation on the sign and a another collision object or raycast pointing away from the front of the character? upon action_use_pressed check the collision status and the tag/type of the item you are colliding with?

NeoD

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm thinking about an area in front of "talkable" items and if the character enters the area the player is authorized to press a button. If the button is pressed into this area the character will make a rotation on the y axis to look at the "talkable" item.

danjo

This might be a dumb question and definitely not help you at all but I wonder what "pnj" stands for. Google couldn't help on this.

NeoD

I made a mistake "pnj" is a french acronym for "npc", and I forgot that because I use this word since I played on PS1 when I was young...Sorry danjo I edited the post.