{"id":2536,"date":"2016-03-27T23:54:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T22:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2016-03-27T23:54:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T22:54:02","slug":"p-167-paranoia-oculus-rift-horror-game-world-constructor-9-interior-object-placement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/p-167-paranoia-oculus-rift-horror-game-world-constructor-9-interior-object-placement\/","title":{"rendered":"P-167: Paranoia: Oculus Rift Horror Game: World Constructor 9: Interior Object Placement"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have finished the final major coding challenge of this project. I have created a relatively complex system to randomly place interior objects in each of the rooms of the level.<\/p>\n

The hardest part of this was placing the objects in a random way without having them intersect with the walls or each other. The conventional collision mechanics don’t work when placing the objects like this, so I had to try a few different approaches (various complex calculations to check the extents of the shapes, various raycasting techniques, etc).<\/p>\n

As it turned out, the solution was quite simple, I just needed to do a containerradiussearch() from the objects position to the maximum extent of that object, given by getworldbox(). This will work very well as long as the object is mostly square. I had to write a little hack to ignore the z-axis of the search, since objects on multiple floors may be directly above each other without colliding.<\/p>\n

I have a little more work to do here with regards to improving the realism. I want to add a system to assign each room a “room type”, and make sure that only objects from that room type are created in that room. This will make sure objects “make sense” in their location and surroundings.<\/p>\n

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I have finished the final major coding challenge of this project. I have created a relatively complex system to randomly place interior objects in each of the rooms of the level. The hardest part of this was placing the objects in a random way without having them intersect with the walls or each other. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-p-0","category-software-and-games","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2538,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}