Character touching a button

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
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I’ve got a character. It is controlled by an armature. The amature has a couple of animations.

I want to have the character touch a button to cue a response.

To check that the button was working, I made a cube and moved it down until it collides with the button. That works. So I know the button is good.

But I can’t seem to get the character to activate the button. The character has a collision modifier, it’s static. The same settings as the cube that does activate the button.

I’m not sure why the character doesn’t activate the button. Any ideas?

2

You can parent an invisible cube to the character’s hand bone, and the collision will be detected.

PS. Modifiers don’t work in the bge!

3

Well, you could set up the button push as an animation that plays when the player presses the corresponding action button. Like: If you were using it to open a door, the keyboard button would be “E” perhaps. So, pre-animate the button push, so that when the player presses “E” the character pushes the button and opens the door.

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Thank you Jackii. I went out for a bike ride and that’s the answer that occurred to me. I tried it out when I got home and my little character is suddenly in control of her world. Good advice.