clickable objects behind other objects

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2020-07-21 at 12:34 pm #30402

michael90g
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hi, i have a small issue when using clickable objects, i have parented some buttons to a camera which acts as buttons, but when they come behind other objetcs they are not clickable, even when they are set to render above everything else, is there a fix for this?

2020-07-21 at 1:04 pm #30409

Yuri Kovelenov
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Hi,

Try moving your button objects as closer to the camera eye as possible, so that they never go behind any objects.

Alternatively, you can use HTML-based UI.
https://www.soft8soft.com/docs/manual/en/introduction/HTML-based-user-interfaces.html

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2020-07-21 at 1:06 pm #30410

Al Sande
Customer

I did this in my “Heli Ride” project (in projects) and had my “clickable objects” just positioned in front of the mostly-transparent “legend” that I made to show where to click.

I did a screenshot of a what my setup looks like. In this project I had 4 cameras so duplicated this setup 4 times; then the user can just click on a camera to change views. The puzzles I used are also shown in the project folder. All object (camera, transparency, clickable objects) are all selected so you can see all of the components.

I did have to mess with it a bit (and it could still use some tweaking) to make sure the “click targets” were actually in front of the legend a bit; it’s still possible to miss it if the click isn’t just right.

I hope this helps a bit…

Al

2020-07-22 at 6:55 am #30449

michael90g
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ok thanks, but moving them closer to the camera forces me to increase near clipping, which have negative effects on intersecting meshes (stuttering and flickering)
but seams to be the only solution if not html based ui then, will try and find a sweet spot for this solution.

Yuri Kovelenov wrote:

Hi,
Try moving your button objects as closer to the camera eye as possible, so that they never go behind any objects.
Alternatively, you can use HTML-based UI. https://www.soft8soft.com/docs/manual/en/introduction/HTML-based-user-interfaces.html

2020-07-22 at 6:58 am #30450

michael90g
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seems like the solution, thanks

Al Sande wrote:

I did this in my “Heli Ride” project (in projects) and had my “clickable objects” just positioned in front of the mostly-transparent “legend” that I made to show where to click.
I did a screenshot of a what my setup looks like. In this project I had 4 cameras so duplicated this setup 4 times; then the user can just click on a camera to change views. The puzzles I used are also shown in the project folder. All object (camera, transparency, clickable objects) are all selected so you can see all of the components.
I did have to mess with it a bit (and it could still use some tweaking) to make sure the “click targets” were actually in front of the legend a bit; it’s still possible to miss it if the click isn’t just right.
I hope this helps a bit…
Al

2020-07-22 at 1:04 pm #30464

Al Sande
Customer

Glad to be able to help out… I’m a bit of a newbie at this end of it but am learning more as I find the time to experiment with this very interesting application.

2020-07-22 at 2:34 pm #30469

Yuri Kovelenov
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