Depending on what it is you are trying to control you might want to take
a look at "3D User Interfaces with Java 3D" chapters 4, which includes
display and world-relative mouse mapping, chapters 14 and 23, which
describe drag-and-drop in 3D, and chapters 13 and 19, which deal with
picking and specifically ways to pick and drag world objects and have
them stick to your cursor.
--jon
> Subject:
> Re: Getting world coordinates from screencoordinates
> Date:
> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 07:04:01 -0600
> From:
> Fiasco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>
> I still cant figure this out.
>
> All I want to do is take the drag distance from the mouse and
> convert it to
> the corresponding 3d world distance. This, of course, would vary
> depending
> on how far the object your moving is from the screen.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Artur Biesiadowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 6:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Getting world coordinates from
> screencoordinates
>
>
> > > Fiasco wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm trying to figure out how I can transform mouse
> coordinates from
> > > the screen into world coordinates. I'm trying to grab
> objects of
> > > varying z distance and want them to appear to stick to the
> mouse
> > > cursor as I drag them.
> >
> > Look at the source code of
> > com.sun.j3d.utils.picking.PickCanvas
> > method
> > setShapeLocation(int x, int y)
> >
> > Artur
> >
> >
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