I’m curious to how a Hearthling considers being inside on a technical level.
If I were to make a giant crate with a door on the front, but as an object not with the builder, and placed a bed inside, with the object’s hitbox(s) set up properly, would the Hearthling consider this a house, or does a “house” specifically have to be made with the building editor for the Hearthling to consider themselves “inside”?
Taking that a step further, if I were to build a box out of multiple normal crates, and placed a door on the front, would that be considered a home or not as well?
Finally, with the game seeing windows and doors as just holes in the wall, what defines a house as a house within the builder? If I put up 4 corner posts and a roof, is that considered “inside”?
That being said; if the hearthling is inside the crate, a ray trace might ignore the container and still be able to see the sky. It depends on how the bounds of the crate and ray trace are setup.
That’s what I needed / wanted to know. Is this definition hard coded, or is it something as easy as adding a line somewhere to change so the crafted items can be counted as roofs?
Ok, now to throw in a trickier situation: given that the buildings don’t count items, what about if we wanted skylights? Think of a window, only on the ceiling… would it punch a hole through the roof (same as doors and windows do for walls) and thus allow a “see the sky” situation, or would the roof still count? Is it a case that the sky must be completely blocked out, or is there a percentage (e.g. >50% blocked = shelter), or some other rule?
I initially assumed that given how RC roofs can have gaps in them, it would be fine; but then I realised that even if those roof types have gaps they’re not “interrupted” (the building editor considers them contiguous) and the game probably doesn’t account for the gaps…
@YetiChow i presume its only checked when heartlings actually need to check, so say, in a bed.so tehy dont “sleep outside”
so literally making a litle overhang off of a natural wall and putting beds under them would probably enough as to count as “inside” (in a bear grills y way)
