Getting a tag from a walkable surface.

[markfrancombe]

Making footsteps. Need to get the tag from the surface the player is walking on.

Ive tried Get Collision Info, followed by Get tag, to no avail!

Doesnt the Character Controller "collide" with the floor?

Mark

[jeanfabre]

Hi,

Is your state actually coming from a system event "ON COLLISION ENTER"?

bye,

 Jean

[markfrancombe]

Er.. no.. I guess thats it?

[jeanfabre]

Hi,

 yes, the get collision info action only works on a flow of states initiated by a system event about collisions ( which internal feeds data that you retrieve in "get collision info")

yes?

bye,

 Jean

[markfrancombe]

Ill set this to SOLVED then.. will test tonight.

I should have clicked the "blue book" all explained there..

Thanks Jean

[jeanfabre]

Hi,

 no problem!

Bye,

 Jean

[markfrancombe]

I was too fast to set to SOLVED
 
So I tried this:

That didnt work, so I did this:


The first works a little better cos at least the green line from controller colidor hit lit up, and De-lights when I jump.

BUT NEITHER gave me any hint that it knew any tags belonging to the geometry Im standing on.

All I want is to tag all walkable surfaces. (metal, dirt, concrete) etc. and use Playmaker to transition to a place where I trigger a script on the character.

At the moment the script only does ONE sound, but works well. As a botch job I will attatche multiple scripts, with different sound on each, and just use PlayMaker to disable and enable as we step from one surface to another.

I may be able to alter the script, so that within the code itself we trigger different sounds based on what variable is fed it... might be better.

BUT FIRST:

TAG GRABBING??? Why doesnt it work?

[parallel]

Maybe you need 'Game Object Tag Switch' ?

[markfrancombe]

Thats GREAT Parallel, the perfect action for what Im doing, only trouble is that the collision is not giving me a tag!

This is what I have... its placed on the player, and the ground here, is tagged concrete (hes stood on a road)

So.. whats up? Why isnt it working?

[parallel]

Would it be too costly to raycast (a short distance or by layer) from the foot and then get tag from the stored surface?

[markfrancombe]

I don't know about being costly, it not a mobile game, however I'm trying to reduce draw calls and optimize, as I'm getting low frame rate already.

Anyway, the player is already sending one ray for mouse pick.
I'd like to avoid another.

More importantly. I d like to know why this doesn't work, I have confirmed that the collision works cos I can see green lines disappearing on the input connection when I jump. It must be something else.