ChatGPT working with PlayCanvas!

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Hey!

I was playing around with Chat GPT and tried to ask coding questions about playcanvas, now when I used it I’ve asked about stuff that I already knew how to implement and noticed that it was coming up with ultra simple and unlikely to work solutions, like I asked how to register a click on a 3D entity in the level, and it’s solution was to just use the this.entity.onClick() feature, or when I asked how to ray trace from the camera, it said to use app.system.camera.pick(app.cursor.position)

Now am I missing something here or are those functions in the engine, but regardless even if they’re not, would be amazing to understand if in the future it could be used as a tool to find solutions?

If you expert could have a got at it, that would be amazing!

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Hi @Lux87 and welcome,

@yaustar on Discord was doing some experiments with Chat GPT, it was quite fun.

But both suggestions you shared above aren’t right agreed:

  • There is no onClick method available on entities.
  • There is no app.system property (it’s systems, but there is no camera pick system).

There is future in this area though for certain!

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I’ve been looking at it recently. It’s not accurate enough that I want to set it loose tbh. It’s useful to those that can work around the 90% working code but not for beginners or those new to the platform

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Yeah I thought so, seemed too good to be true :smile: Thanks for your replies!

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Tried making a custom GPT that takes the latest stable engine code from github and a reference to official documentation if you wanna try (needs PRO account):

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-jdsb0e7Fb-playcanvas-pro

It, well, sort of works at least. But give it a try. Will not replace a programmer or anything. But a good help for lazy devs like myself.

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