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[Derrek3D]

Hello,

I'm a bit puzzled by the reaction of my 3D actor to clicks around my scene (I use the "Find path using 2D elements only" option). When I click on my "floor" region the actor walks to that point just fine. Now when I click on any non-interactive areas in my scene that are outside the "floor" region, my actor walks to some arbitrary location on the "floor" that apparently has nothing to do with where I made the click.

I have no idea what the problem is but more so, I don't even know what the correct behavior of an actor for when the user clicks on any other non-interactive part of the scene should be. Should the actor walk anywhere in such case?

[Mnemonic]

I have no idea what the problem is but more so, I don't even know what the correct behavior of an actor for when the user clicks on any other non-interactive part of the scene should be. Should the actor walk anywhere in such case?

Yes, the actor should walk to a nearest "walkable" point in the scene. In case of 3D actors, try to design the hidden scene geometry that way so that the walkable mesh covers the majority of the 2D scene. This mesh is used for converting the 2D clicks to 3D space. If you click outside the walkable mesh, once again the engine tries to find the nearest walkable point, but given the 2D to 3D conversion issues, it may or may not give reasonable results.

[Derrek3D]

Sorry, wrong thread. Moving...

[Derrek3D]

So if walking to the nearest "walkable" point in the scene isn't very logical in the case of a specific scene, should I override the GoTo for this specific scene and manage what happens when the mouse is clicked in the non-walkable area myself?

[Mnemonic]

That's one way to do it. However, if you only need this in a single scene, you can handle it in the "scripts\scene.script", which is attached to every scene by default and which handles those clicks in non-walkable areas (or rather detach this script in this case and make a customized version).

[Derrek3D]

Good advice, I'll try that. Thanks.