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Fengalon

April 07, 2005, 05:38 PM

Can anyone send me an example of Mouse Ray Picking technique?
 
Jason Zelsnack

April 07, 2005, 07:35 PM

Do you want a fully working program doing screen-space raycasting or just some code showing how to do it?

If you just want some code snippets I could put some up for you. The trickiest part is creating a ray from a screenspace coordinate. I use the worldSpace camera matrix and the FOV to calculate my rays instead of the view matrix like in that Brian Hook article. I find that easier to understand.
 
Fengalon

April 08, 2005, 02:26 AM

A fully working program would be best... ^^

But some code snippets would do... Thanks!
 
Illco

April 08, 2005, 01:32 PM

I don't know which platform you are working on - if any - but the DirectX SDK contains a quite clear picking sample.

Greetz,

Illco
 
Illco

April 08, 2005, 01:33 PM

Ah what the heck; here is the important part:

  1.  
  2.     HRESULT hr;
  3.     D3DXVECTOR3 vPickRayDir;
  4.     D3DXVECTOR3 vPickRayOrig;
  5.  
  6.     m_dwNumIntersections = 0L;
  7.  
  8.     // Get the pick ray from the mouse position
  9.     if( GetCapture() )
  10.     {
  11.         D3DXMATRIXA16 matProj;
  12.         m_pd3dDevice->GetTransform( D3DTS_PROJECTION, &matProj );
  13.  
  14.         POINT ptCursor;
  15.         GetCursorPos( &ptCursor );
  16.         ScreenToClient( m_hWnd, &ptCursor );
  17.  
  18.         // Compute the vector of the pick ray in screen space
  19.         D3DXVECTOR3 v;
  20.         v.x =  ( ( ( 2.0f * ptCursor.x ) / m_d3dsdBackBuffer.Width  ) - 1 ) / matProj._11;
  21.         v.y = -( ( ( 2.0f * ptCursor.y ) / m_d3dsdBackBuffer.Height ) - 1 ) / matProj._22;
  22.         v.z =  1.0f;
  23.  
  24.         // Get the inverse of the composite view and world matrix
  25.         D3DXMATRIXA16 matView, matWorld, m;
  26.         m_pd3dDevice->GetTransform( D3DTS_VIEW, &matView );
  27.         m_pd3dDevice->GetTransform( D3DTS_WORLD, &matWorld );
  28.        
  29.         m = matWorld * matView;
  30.         D3DXMatrixInverse( &m, NULL, &m );
  31.  
  32.         // Transform the screen space pick ray into 3D space
  33.         vPickRayDir.x  = v.x*m._11 + v.y*m._21 + v.z*m._31;
  34.         vPickRayDir.y  = v.x*m._12 + v.y*m._22 + v.z*m._32;
  35.         vPickRayDir.z  = v.x*m._13 + v.y*m._23 + v.z*m._33;
  36.         vPickRayOrig.x = m._41;
  37.         vPickRayOrig.y = m._42;
  38.         vPickRayOrig.z = m._43;
  39.     }
  40.  
 
Fengalon

April 09, 2005, 11:31 AM

I'm using Opengl/SDL on windows... I'm still not quite familiar with DirectX though...
 
Fengalon

April 09, 2005, 11:32 AM

I'm using Opengl/SDL on windows... I'm still not quite familiar with DirectX though...
 
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