Ray sensor, but not hitPosition

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Hello,

I am trying to get a ray sensor to spawn an object…
Rather then adding the object at the hitPosition I would like to
spawn it at a set distance (maybe 20) from the owners worldPosition.

So far I have been able to make it add the object at a hitPosition…
But I don’t need to use a ray sensor… What would be the best
way to do this??

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A ray sensor can’t spawn an object ;).

You can place an object wherever you want by setting its worldPosition or localPosition.
Alternative:
Set the “emitter object” at the location you want the new object appear.

If you do not need hitPosition you can skip the ray sensor.

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Is matter of vector sum.

You need import mathutils.Vector

  1. Get the position of owner with v1 = owner.position
  2. Get the direction in front of your owner with v2 = getAxisVect([…]).
  3. Change the magnitude of v2 (to 20 for example).
  4. The point for spawn is v3 = v1 + v2.

Remember convert v1, v2 and v3 to Vector.

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Thank you xaedro!!

This seems like a much better solution then what I was trying :smiley: