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reseting an object

Hello,

I am trying to reset an object. Right now when my sensor passes over and object and then sets the position to to -10 on the y axis. What I want to do is when my sensor leaves that object how do I reset that particular object to 0 on the y - axis.

I have my objects arranged in an array which lays the objects out on the x and z -axis flat on the y -axis. The array is 4 x 5.

Thanks for any help

Are you using viz.intersect to see whether or not the sensor is over the block?

You can continue to us viz.intersect to see whether or not the line drawn from below the sensor is still intersecting the block. If it is you don't need to do anything since the block has already been moved down. If it's not intersecting that object anymore the sensor has moved beyond it and you can reset the object's position.

if you're still using the vizintersect code from the other thread you started than you could change it to something like this.

Code:

currentBlock = None

def moveBlock():

        

        global currentBlock

        

        x,y,z = ball.getPosition()

        info = viz.intersect([x,y-1,z],[x,y-20,z])

        if info.valid and currentBlock == None:

                currentBlock = info.object

                currentBlock.setPosition([0,-10,0], viz.REL_LOCAL)

        elif not info.valid and currentBlock is not None:

                currentBlock.setPosition([0,10,0], viz.REL_LOCAL)

                currentBlock = None

        

vizact.ontimer(0,moveBlock)

Still not working... Below is the code I have created for it. Im thinking it has something to do with the array. Just getting confused with it.

Code:

import viz

viz.go()



OriginalPillar = viz.add('pillarWRL.wrl')

OriginalPillar.visible(viz.OFF)



viz.MainView.setPosition([0,10,-35]) #sets camera position

viz.MainView.setEuler([0,2,0]) #sets camera pitch



PORT_PPT = 6



numLights = viz.input('How many lights are you tracking?')

numLights = min(8,numLights)



for x in range(numLights): #creates sensor and call

        

        #Add ground

        ground = viz.add( 'tut_ground.wrl' )

        ground.setPosition([0,-5,0])

        

        #Create sensor

        ppt = viz.add('vizppt.dls')

        

        #Create ball

        ball = viz.add('white_ball.wrl')

        ball.scale(1,1,1)

        ballLink = viz.link(ppt, ball)

        #controls distance in virtual world

        ballLink.postScale([8,1,13],target = viz.LINK_FULL_OP)



        columns = [-20, -10, 0, 10, 20]

        rows = [0, 6, 12, 18]

pillars = []

for x in columns:  #creates an array of pillars

        for y in rows:

                pillar = OriginalPillar.copy()

                pillar.translate(0+x, 0, 0+y)

                pillar.setScale(1,1,1)

                pillar.visible(viz.OFF)

                pillars.append(pillar)



number = 0

def showPillar(): #displays pillars

        global number

        pillars[number].visible(viz.ON)

        number +=1

vizact.ontimer2(.5,len(pillars)-1,showPillar)



currentBlock = None

def moveblock():



        global currentBlock

        

        x,y,z = ball.getPosition()

        info = viz.intersect([x,y-1,z],[x,y-20,z])

        if info.valid and currentBlock == None:

                currentBlock = info.object

                currentBlock.setPosition([0,-10,0], viz.REL_LOCAL)

        elif not info.valid and currentBlock is not None:

                currentBlock.setPosition([0,10,0], viz.REL_LOCAL)

                currentBlock = None

                

vizact.ontimer(0, moveblock)

I think an intersection occurs with the ground and that interferes with code to move the pillars. Try disabling intersection on the ground

Code:

ground.disable(viz.INTERSECTION)