[Pogamut-list] Raytracing Bug

[jacob.schrum]

Raytracing Bug

Author: jacob.schrum

There seems to be a bug with raytracing. I was using the RaycastingBot to learn about rays, and I noticed that although this bot defines 5 AutoTraceRays, it only references 3 of them in the flagChanged method of the listener that checks the rays. If you change the body of that method from:
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left = raycasting.getRay(LEFT45);
front = raycasting.getRay(FRONT);
right = raycasting.getRay(RIGHT45);
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to
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System.out.println("traces");
AutoTraceRay temp = raycasting.getRay(LEFT90);
left = raycasting.getRay(LEFT45);
front = raycasting.getRay(FRONT);
right = raycasting.getRay(RIGHT45);
temp = raycasting.getRay(RIGHT90);
System.out.println("finished");
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Then the method hangs forever. I know this because the "finished" at the end never gets printed. Finding this bug was pretty annoying. This was all in 3.0.11 by the way.

On a related note, why isn't there a method like getAutoTraces() anymore that simply returns the current state of all previously defined autotraces?

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