Difference between ... BasicRayCast RayCast?

Please can someone explain or point me in the direction to explain the differences between the MogreNewt.BasciRayCast and MogreNewt.RayCast?

MogreNewt.BasicRay doesn't work how i expect it to, and I can't see how to use the MogreNewt.RayCast.

Which one should i be using? I have a building made up of several rooms, each room is a mesh, and i'm creating collision objects using MogreNewt.CollisionPrimitives.TreeCollision for each room. I would like to point a ray to the floor to work out which room i'm in. The rooms are complex, they are not simple rectangular shapes.

Any help is much appreciated! Thanks!
Tufty

Please can someone explain or point me in the direction to explain the differences between the MogreNewt.BasciRayCast and MogreNewt.RayCast?

MogreNewt.BasicRay doesn't work how i expect it to, and I can't see how to use the MogreNewt.RayCast.

Which one should i be using? I have a building made up of several rooms, each room is a mesh, and i'm creating collision objects using MogreNewt.CollisionPrimitives.TreeCollision for each room. I would like to point a ray to the floor to work out which room i'm in. The rooms are complex, they are not simple rectangular shapes.

Any help is much appreciated! Thanks!
Tufty

I've used BasicRayCast and it works fine for me. What seems to be the problem.

I'm assuming all your rooms have a floor. Just get the position of player and add something like Vector3(0,-10,0) to it. Raycast between the two positions and do a getInfoAt(X).mBody to know what it's hitting..


Vector3 pos, pos1;
Quaternion quat;
playerBody->getPositionOrientation(pos,quat);

pos1 = pos + Vector3(0,-10,0);

BasicRaycast ray(newtWorld, pos, pos1);
floorBody = ray.getFirstHit().mBody;


This works fine for me