Raycaster returns a-entity instead of templated element

[ngokevin]

Issue by caseyyee
Monday Nov 16, 2015 at 21:41 GMT
Originally opened as https://github.com/aframevr/aframe-core/issues/452

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Not sure what the proper behavior is, but It would be useful to have the option of returning the parent template element?

[ngokevin]

Comment by caseyyee
Thursday Nov 19, 2015 at 04:52 GMT

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Raycaster also returns distance from the geometry face or BB (not sure which one) that is intersected with -- not the objects origin. Again, unsure what the proper behaviour should be here.

[ngokevin]

Comment by cvan
Wednesday Dec 02, 2015 at 08:13 GMT

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yeah, this is filed as #204. your issue is more explicit and descriptive of the issue though. a PR has been opened to "fix" this: ngokevin/aframe-core#521

this evening @dmarcos and I discussed all the possible use cases, expected behaviors, caveats, and possible solutions to remedy this. we basically have templates that wrap single elements (entities), and we have templates that wrap multiple elements (entities). the events should be bubbling, but I think it's because the cursor code that sets the hovered state on the <a-entity> itself and not its parent template instance (<a-cube>). @dmarcos and I have to have some more discussions here, but yeah.

[ngokevin]

Comment by jcarpenter
Friday Dec 11, 2015 at 09:51 GMT

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Updated title to reflect new naming.

[cvan]

fixed by PR #883. may be an issue again if we resurrect templates (issue #930).