Suppose I want to allow a model to do an animation when I hover the mouse cursor over it. Would I need to use the Panel function for models? or is that just for BMPs only?

I did something along the lines of:
Code:

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if((mouse_pos.x == player.x) && (mouse_pos.y == player.y) && (mouse_pos.z == player.z)) //if the mouse coords are the same as the player model's
{
     // do the player model's animation here
}

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but it didn't work. I did a panel check and noticed that the mouse_pos data is different from the player's. It uses the screen size to determine the position (ie: 800 x 600) instead of the 3D world size, whereas the player model uses the actual 3D world coords. Should I not be using mouse_pos then?

The mouse position is within screen coordinates.

The model is in space coordinates.

I don't know much else, but that might help.

Well looking through all the mouse() functions, I didn't see any that talks about space coordinates for the mouse. Am I not supposed to use the mouse() functions at all?

temp.x = MOUSE_POS.x;
temp.y = MOUSE_POS.y;
temp.z = 200;
vec_for_screen(temp, CAMERA);

EDIT: MY 1234th post, lol...

thank you! So is the vec_for_screen function generally used for converting the mouse_pos coordinates like this?

It's used for converting screen coords to world coords...

check out all of the screen() functions in the manual

good idea... use my.enable_touch and event_touch function.

think this is easier: if(mouse_ent == player)

I'm still having problems with this. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Basically, I want to be able to select stuff in a 3D environment. For example, if there's a tree in the distance, when the mouse cursor hovers over it then the tree will light up or words will come on the screen.

A snippet of what I've done:

Code:

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text contact_text	
{
  font = standard_font;
  layer = 10;
  pos_x = 350;
  pos_y = 100;
  size_y = 70;
  offset_y = 0;
  flags = center_x, narrow, visible;
} 

string str1 = "The mouse is touching the tree. \n Testing the text now. \n testing the line breaks also! loading.....";



function mouse_test()
{

temp.x = MOUSE_POS.x;
temp.y = MOUSE_POS.y;
temp.z = MOUSE_POS.Z;
vec_for_screen(temp, camera); 



if((temp.x == tree.x) && (temp.y == tree.y) && (temp.z == tree.z))
 {
	contact_text.string = str1;
}

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