The Detect Object Ability Base ability is an abstract class designed for any ability that needs another object to start. This includes abilities such as picking up an object, vaulting, climbing, interacting, etc. This ability doesn’t do anything besides detect when an object can be interacted with by the character.
Object Identifier
If the ability is performing a cast it can filter the found object based on the layer mask or an object identifier value. If an object identifier is used the target object should contain the Object Identifier component with an ID that matches the ability’s Object ID value. In the screenshot below the ability’s Object ID value would be set to 106.
Inspected Fields
Object Detection
The mask which specifies how the ability should detect other objects.
- Trigger: Use a trigger to detect if the character is near an object
- Charactercast: Use the character controllers to do a cast in order to detect if the character is near an object.
- Raycast: Use a raycast to detect if the character is near an object.
- Spherecast: Use a spherecast to detect if the character is near an object.
- Customcast: The ability will perform its own custom cast.
Multiple values can be selected, though in most cases just the Trigger or Charactercast options will be sufficient.
Detect Layers
The LayerMask of the object or trigger that should be detected.
Use Look Position
Should the detection method use the Look Source position? If false the character position will be used.
Use Look Direction
Should the detection method use the Look Source direction? If false the character direction will be used.
Angle Threshold
The maximum angle that the character can be relative to the forward direction of the object.
Object ID
The unique ID value of the Object Identifier component. A value of -1 indicates that this ID should not be used.
Cast Distance
The distance of the cast. Used if the Object Detection Mode is set to anything other then a Trigger detection mode.
Cast Frame Interval
The number of frames that should elapse before another cast is performed. A value of 0 will allow the cast to occur every frame.
Cast Offset
The offset applied to the raycast or spherecast.
Spherecast Radius
The radius of the spherecast.