Any function to get mouse cursor depth in 3D ?

[rizosha]

Hi all!

I'm running WoW in 3D and I set mouse in software mode so the mouse pointer is also in 3D.

My problem is:

I'm running a WoW addon that changes the default location for the tooltip to the mouse cursor but it doesn't have into account the depth of the mouse cursor. So I'm rewriting addon code to set the Tooltip depth everytime it updates. I really know how to set depth in any UI Frame (with the setdepth LUA function) but I can't find any way to get the mouse cursor depth.

So my question is:

Is there any way to get the depth of the mouse cursor or at least the depth of a Unit ? I'm not asking for a LUA function (I know there is no one) but for a "private" function into the WoW's executable dump.

I'm not an English-native so I apologize if there are mistakes in this text :-P

[jackus]

Is wow a 2D platform game? O_o I have never!!

BTW wrong place.

[!@^^@!]

I'm in the wrong place.

Fixed

Ontopic: sorry can't help you there...

[rizosha]

Is wow a 2D platform game? O_o I have never!!

BTW wrong place.

I don't think you have read my post carefully to understand I was talking about 3D Vision. It's obvious if you really know the term "depth" and the 3D vision function "setdepth" I have mentioned in my post.

I don't like people just being ironic instead of trying to resolve problems other ppl have.

And I don't think my post is in a wrong place because I'm asking for a "hide" function in the WoW executable dump.

[namreeb]

It's not in the wrong place. Have you considered looking at traceline?

[!@^^@!]

Namereeb and everyone else that might have missunderstood him, he's talking about stereoscopic 3d and how to set the depth of the mouse cursor

[rizosha]

Namereeb and everyone else that might have missunderstood him, he's talking about stereoscopic 3d and how to set the depth of the mouse cursor

Correct! But I'm asking for how to GET the depth of the mouse cursor or at least of a Unit. Maybe the depth mouse cursor is stored in any memory offset?

[schlumpf]

The mouse being a two dimensional object on top of a 3d space would lead me to the conclusion of being on zmax with all other objects having z < zmax. It actually should require to be on the same z as the rest of the ui. Also: Doesn't setdepth only set the rendering order? Does it actually modify z values? I guess not. Also, there is no need to implement any possibility of changing it from that default as you can't move the mouse in three but only two dimensions. Ergo, no depth is needed and its drawn together with other objects / ui having this property.

[Jailbait101]

Isnt the 3D view just an optical illusion? Perhaps calculating the object distance and increasing/decreasing the tooltip window scale accordingly will create the effect you're looking for?
Or maybe I'm just misunderstanding what you're trying to achieve..

[rizosha]

As I said before cursor is a three-dimensional object if you configure it in the game options and set it in software mode (instead of hardware mode).

Depth in 3D vision is a measure of how long is the distance between the left and right images.


I'm afraid not many people here playing in 3D so I think my question is hard to resolve...

Nevertheless, I want to thank all the answers you gave me

[!@^^@!]

I think you might be better off explaining this in the official tech support or addon forum for WoW because it kinda sounds like a bug to me but then again i'm not entirly sure what you're trying to achieve and what the addon is doing...

[miceiken]

Imagine doing some AOE thing that requires a terrain click, you can move it along the terrain. I think it's something like that he means?