By closest to the shapecast I guess you mean to its middle when multiple things are detected? You can just add an empty child placed in a spot you consider middle and compare distances of detected stuff, may not be the greatest solution but not much effort is being put. About a label, it's a part of UI, you want to keep one button hidden in canvas that gets visible when there's an object in your cast(and hides when there isn't).
#interaction system with hover selection
paper viper
naive heath
yeah i kinda had an idea for that part, the main issue is, how to detect when an item should display it's hovered label? with the setup i have right now, i can only send a signal when i press "interact", but i have no way of knowing if i am colliding an item and if it should be hovered or not
i thought about having a signal for when the item enters my collision and another for when it exits but i don't think that's really possible?
with my knowledge at least
paper viper
In code responsible for detection emit signal whenever an interaction target changes. You can add a string argument to signal so it can also send the interacted object's name to the label, when there is nothing it sends empty string "". And in the label add a simple check that hides hit when it string == "".
Should work
naive heath
alright i'm gonna try that
pastel stream
You also probably should change shapecast to an area
naive heath
You also probably should change shapecast to an area
damn yeah since i was used to using raycasts for interactions so i assumed i had to use shapecasts for some reason lol but that makes a lot of sense, gonna be way easier with an area i think