Hi Dirk!
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 11:51, Dirk Reiners wrote:
> > I would like to map the location of my 2d mouse pointer to 3d
> > coordinates within the scene. As there seems to be no posiblity to get
> > the view plane out of the viewport, I tried the following:
[snip]
> If you have the view distance, you can just get the point using the ray
> you got above, but the view distance needs to be defined externally. The
> Trackball Navigator for example just intersects the ray with the scene
> to find the distance needed and uses that.
>
> But the specifics depend on what you really want to do, maybe you can
> give us some more details.
I just want to get the "hand"-coordinates (in this case the location of
the mouse pointer). One application is to create an object that floats
just below the mouse pointer, but I want to keep it as general as
possible, so I don't want to use a foreground.
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