Get material for footsteps?

[elvisish]

Is it possible to get materials from blocks? I want to use different footsteps for different materials and but am not sure how to get them with a ray node (it just returns StaticBody3D or its children, CollisionShape3D).

[elvisish]

Okay this seems to sort of work, though it's a little clunky:

get_collider().get_parent().materials[0]

But this is just giving me a UID I think, instead of a reference to the material, or even the material name (most useful):
<StandardMaterial3D#-9223371976825895526>

[blackears]

Right now the mesh is stored in a MeshInstance3D which is inside a CyclopsConvexBlockBody, so you can get it the same way you do for a regular MeshInstance3D.

[elvisish]

Right now the mesh is stored in a MeshInstance3D which is inside a CyclopsConvexBlockBody, so you can get it the same way you do for a regular MeshInstance3D.

Is this the regular way?

get_collider().get_parent().materials[0]

I could probably do get_collider().get_parent().materials[0].name and compare the string to lists of names that use particular sounds?

[blackears]

I'm not exactly sure what you're doing, but I think get_collider() returns the StaticBode3D with the collision. The get_parent() takes you to the CyclopsConvexBlockBody which should have a child that is a MeshInstance3D which has the actual mesh. You should be looking there for the material. Then again, this is likely to change fairly shortly after the redesign.

[elvisish]

I'm not exactly sure what you're doing, but I think get_collider() returns the StaticBode3D with the collision. The get_parent() takes you to the CyclopsConvexBlockBody which should have a child that is a MeshInstance3D which has the actual mesh. You should be looking there for the material. Then again, this is likely to change fairly shortly after the redesign.

Okay, here we go:

ray.get_collider().get_parent().materials[0].albedo_texture.resource_path.get_file().trim_suffix(".png")

I've no idea how performant this is, but it works. It would be nice if there was a slightly tidier way of doing this, but it's good enough for occasional footstep sounds.