Prevent flats clipping thru walls

[pango]

Fire 2 raycasts from enemy center, left and right (in the plane of the billboard), then clip the billboard using hit distances.

I'm not sure what would be the performance impact

[TacticalTrickery]

For this kinda thing...?

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[pango]

Yes, that kind of things. Breaks immersion, and kind of spoil where enemies are located

[DunnyOfPenwick]

The other side of this problem is seeing half an enemy disappear into the wall when fighting them.

A possible fix for these problems is creating a more appropriate sized/shaped collider for the enemies.
The standard colliders are capsule shaped, which matches humanoids well but does a poor job with other enemies.

[pango]

In many cases you won't be able to use a suitable collider, because it won't fit into walls and doors geometry.

[TacticalTrickery]

Fire 2 raycasts from enemy center, left and right (in the plane of the billboard), then clip the billboard using hit distances.

Do you have a generic graphic you could link or post here that demonstrates this doubleRaycast/clip? I don't have much understanding of 3D engines in general, but I know a few concepts.

I do agree that the current clipping really breaks immersion instantly (I kinda hate it), and having an enemy half-disappear into the wall during combat is certainly a problem as well...

[pango]

Not really,no. Raycasts are the easy part (used them before), but I don't know how to achieve billboard clipping

[pango]

It should also be noted that it's no silver bullet, it should only work fine for vertical obstacles, which should be the most common case by far in dungeons and houses.
That's just the best idea I found so far.

[DunnyOfPenwick]

Maybe another way is to raycast from the edges of the collider capsule towards the camera. Left, right, top bottom. If all 4 raycasts are blocked, then completely disable the enemy graphic. It could potentially fix a subset of problems at least.

[pango]

... and sometimes fail to display enemies under some conditions (seen thru small openings?), which is why I rejected that solution. But maybe it's not that bad, that's something to experiment with.