I am trying to constrain a facemesh to a 3D object so that it will rotate around the surface of the 3D object in response to the face tracker instead of moving off to the side. Currently, the facemesh is a child of the cylinder, but is not attached to it in a way that would rotate around the cylinder surface.
Currently, I am attempting to use the bounding box patch to determine the area to clamp the face mesh to. So far, the mesh is related to the 3D object bounding box, but will not constrain to its surface. Adjustment to the clamp patch variables will move the face mesh within the space, but not constrain it either.
The answer is much simpler than I first attempted. Using the patch editor:
Unpack the 3D rotation from the facefinder.
take the from range from the X and Y positions
look at the maximum and minimum ranges of the face tracker rotation/position values to set To and From Ranges
create a null object and make it a child of the stationary 3D object
make the face mesh a child of the null object
connect the output of the face tracker's rotation/position to the rotation/position value of the null object.
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When you're using the Flash/Animate IDE and you select something on the stage with the Free Transform Tool, then move the transformation point (the white circle), what is it actually doing in frame script? DisplayObjects only have x and y properties, there's no transformX or transformY.
I have a MovieClip place on the stage through the Flash IDE with various transformations applied to it, and I would like to be able to replicate those in Actionscript.
When you're creating a display object in IDE, moving transformation point makes IDE move everything inside that object in reverse direction coordinates wise. It's like if you're moving a zero point of a local coordinates system, leaving everything else intact, the contents will then have their coordinates altered.
In order to simulate this behavior, you can nest your display object being created into a container sprite, then when your user drags transformation center, you move the wrapper sprite to the new coordinates and alter its nested object's ( the one with all the contents) coordinates by negative delta between old and new positions of virtual zero.
I wish to use the "intersects" (from Starling) to create a collision, but i don't know how to convert my Quad "player" and my Quad "block" to Rectangles.
Can someone help?
Quad contains a getBounds public method that returns a new rectangle (or an updated one if passed in on the second param), so:
var playerRect:Rectangle = quadPlayer.getBounds(this);
var blockRect:Rectangle = blockPlayer.getBounds(this);
if (playerRect.intersects(blockRect)) {
trace("Collision!");
}
Now, I am using this as I do not know your display list hierarchy and this do not know which coordinate system your quads are in, so adjust accordingly.
http://doc.starling-framework.org/current/starling/display/DisplayObject.html
Transforming coordinates
Within the display tree, each object has its own local coordinate system. If you rotate a container, you rotate that coordinate system - and thus all the children of the container.
Sometimes you need to know where a certain point lies relative to another coordinate system. That's the purpose of the method getTransformationMatrix. It will create a matrix that represents the transformation of a point in one coordinate system to another.
http://doc.starling-framework.org/current/starling/display/Quad.html
getBounds(targetSpace:DisplayObject, out:Rectangle = null):Rectangle
[override] Returns a rectangle that completely encloses the object as it appears in another coordinate system.
Question: How do you drag an object in a 3d environment with libgdx?
I manage to pick the object by using a Ray projected from the screen point that I touch and checking if intersects the object's bounding box but I don't understand how to actually update its position. What I'm trying to achieve is a movement on the xz plane, so that when I drag my finger towards the upper ( or lower) end of the screen, the objects move in depth on the plane. Anybody can help?
I'm currently working on an educational Flash application on the Adobe CS5 Flash Professional platform, using the ActionScript 3 programming language.
In my program the user is required to plot a shape onto a 4x4 squared grid, which I’ve generated using a For Loop that runs through sixteen times.
As the For Loop constructs the grid, it adds 16 child instances of the same 23x23 pixel squared MovieClip, laid out equally in four rows and four columns and each of these MovieClip is assigned a unique ID number ranging from 1-16 and a Mouse Down listener event, ready for user interaction.
Should the user click on a square in the grid, during the course of plotting and selecting their shape, the MovieClip’s colour will firstly change to signify to the user it has been selected for inclusion.
Secondly I’ve also set-up a Boolean based Array [0-15], which links to the corresponding ID numbers of the grid, so for example if I selected the top left square in my 4x4 grid, the [0] property of my Boolean array would change from false to true and likewise if I selected the third square along on the second row of my grid the [6] property of my array would do the same and so on.
Now using this technique and referencing the array, I can always know which blocks have been chosen by my user and by running another For Loop on a subsequent slide in my program, I’ve managed to output, based on my ‘selection’ Boolean array, the same shape that my user has designed, in the confines of another 4x4 grid, with the selected blocks colour changed from grey to black, if any array value is set to True.
Now my problem is that my user will subsequently need to plot their designed shape, produced on the first grid, onto a larger second grid in large volumes (up to 8-9 times on some occasions). This grid is considerably larger than 4x4 one, being 24 x 12 to be exact (288 blocks).
Now what I need is when my user clicks on this second larger grid I want an output of their designed shape to be added to the stage as a brand new MovieClip.
But importantly the shape needs to be cropped down. For example if the user made a square shape on the first grid by selecting blocks 2,3,6,7; I don’t want a 16 block MovieClip (92x92 pixels, based on my 23x23 pixel blocks) being added to the bigger grid with four blocks shaded a different colour, I want a 4 block, squared shape (46 x 46 pixels, based on my 23x23 blocks) to be added, from the top-left grid square you select on the second grid.
Ideally I’d like to create my user’s plotted shape programmatically using the Shape Drawing tool and do this within a function, so I can then run the function each time the user enters the second grid area and update the user’s shape, should the user had gone back and amended it in the first grid. This would also give me the scope to also change the shape colour prior to adding the child of it to my stage, which is another area of functionality I need and another reason why I’d like to do this shape programmatically.
I imagine capturing the x/y co-ordinates of the blocks from the first grid in a further array and subsequently searching through that array to find the first block instance and then draw the shape from this point, could be the way forward but that is as far as my thinking has taken me.
Any ideas or suggested reading on how to do this would be very welcome. Many Thanks.
My suggestion is that you use bitmaps as your base class for such a shape, initialize it with full transparence, then draw() your MCs on that bitmap.bitmapData with adjusted X&Y values, then you place that bitmap over your "larger grid" using supplied X&Y.
var bd:BitmapData=new BitmapData(23*4,23*4,true,0x0);
var mat:Matrix=new Matrix();
mat.tx=-1*LeftCornerX;
mat.ty=-1*LeftCornerY;
for (i=0;i<16;i++) if (BlockMCsSelected[i]) bd.draw(BlockMCs[i],mat);
var bm:Bitmap=new Bitmap(bd);
bm.x=SuppliedX;
bm.y=SuppliedY;
LargerGrid.addChild(bm);
Basically, this should do if you specify your input data correctly. But if you need it to receive events, encapsulate this bitmap into a Sprite object, that one can process events, and give coordinates to sprite, not bitmap.
To clarify things, what i am trying to do is to get the openGL coordinates and manipulate them in my mfc code. not to get an openGL object. i'm using the mfc to control the position of the objects in the openGL.
Hi, i'm trying to find the naswer on the web and can't find a full solution that i can use and that will work...
I'm developing a MFC project with static picture as the canvas for an openGL class that draw the grphics for my game.
On moush down, i need to retrive a shape coordinate from the openGL class.
I'm looking for a way to convert the openGL coordinates to MFC coordinates but no matter what i try i get junk after using the gluProject or gluUnProject (i've tried to do both ways but non is working)
GLdouble modelMatrix[16];
glGetDoublev(GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX,modelMatrix);
GLdouble projMatrix[16];
glGetDoublev(GL_PROJECTION_MATRIX,projMatrix);
int viewport[4];
glGetIntegerv(GL_VIEWPORT,viewport);
POINT mouse; // Stores The X And Y Coords For The Current Mouse Position
GetCursorPos(&mouse); // Gets The Current Cursor Coordinates (Mouse Coordinates)
ScreenToClient(hWnd, &mouse);
GLdouble winX, winY, winZ; // Holds Our X, Y and Z Coordinates
winX; = (float)point.x; // Holds The Mouse X Coordinate
winY; = (float)point.y; // Holds The Mouse Y Coordinate
winY = (float)viewport[3] - winY;
glReadPixels(winX, winY, 1, 1, GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT, GL_FLOAT, &winZ);
GLdouble posX=s1->getPosX(), posY=s1->getPosY(), posZ=s1->getPosZ(); // Hold The Final Values
gluUnProject( winX, winY, winZ, modelMatrix, projMatrix, viewport, &posX, &posY, &posZ);
gluProject(posX, posY, posZ, modelMatrix, projMatrix, viewport, &winX, &winY, &winZ);
This is just part of the code i've tried. ofcourse not gluProject and gluUnProject together. just had them both here to show.....and i know there is lots of junk over there, its from some of my tries...
p.s. i've tried many many more combinations and examples from the web and nothing seem to work in my case....
Can any one show me what is the right way to do the transformation?
10x
It looks like you're trying to retrieve the object (or objects) that is/are at a particular point. If this is the case, gluProject and/or gluUnProject isn't really a very suitable tool for the task. OpenGL has a selection mode intended specifically for this kind of task.
In typical use, you specify a small square (e.g., 5x5 pixels) around the mouse click spot with gluPickMatrix, set selection mode with glRenderMode, set a buffer with glSwelectBuffer, and then draw your scene. The drawing doesn't go to the screen, but fills the buffer you specified wiyh records of what was drawn within the specified area.