Currently, I'm facing a challenge when it comes to selecting objects with the orthographic camera using the raycaster. Interestingly, I don't encounter any issues when utilizing a perspective camera. The only difference between the two scenarios is the type of camera being used.
In the orthographic view, I am able to select faces, but the selection seems loosely connected to where I click on the screen. Even if I click far away from the object, it still registers as hitting the object near its center.
Do you have any insights into what might be causing this issue?
A lot of my code is based on this example, and I'm aiming to achieve similar results. (The provided example uses a perspective camera)
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated
<html>
<head>
<style>
canvas {
left: 0;
top: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
position: fixed;
background-color: #111115;
}
</style>
</head>
<body id='c'>
<script src="js/three.js"></script>
<script>
var obj = [];
var mouse ={};
var zoom = 2;
var scene = new THREE.Scene();
//switch between these two and see the difference:
//var camera = new THREE.OrthographicCamera(window.innerWidth / -zoom, window.innerWidth / zoom, window.innerHeight / zoom, window.innerHeight / -zoom, -1000, 1000);
var camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera( 45, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 1, 1000 );
camera.position = new THREE.Vector3(100,100,100);
camera.lookAt(new THREE.Vector3(0,0,0));
// this material causes a mesh to use colors assigned to faces
var material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial(
{ color: 0xffffff, vertexColors: THREE.FaceColors } );
var sphereGeometry = new THREE.SphereGeometry( 80, 32, 16 );
for ( var i = 0; i < sphereGeometry.faces.length; i++ )
{
face = sphereGeometry.faces[ i ];
face.color.setRGB( 0, 0, 0.8 * Math.random() + 0.2 );
}
obj['box'] = {};
obj['box'] = new THREE.Mesh( sphereGeometry, material );
obj['box'].castShadow = true;
obj['box'].receiveShadow = true;
scene.add(obj['box']);
var ambientLight = new THREE.AmbientLight(0xbbbbbb);
scene.add(ambientLight);
var directionalLight = new THREE.DirectionalLight(0xffffff, 1);
directionalLight.position.set(-100, 40, 100);
directionalLight.castShadow = true;
directionalLight.shadowOnly = true;
directionalLight.shadowDarkness = .5;
scene.add(directionalLight);
var renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer();
renderer.setSize(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight);
renderer.shadowMapEnabled = true;
renderer.shadowMapSoft = true;
document.body.appendChild(renderer.domElement);
projector = new THREE.Projector();
document.addEventListener( 'mousedown', onDocumentMouseDown, false );
function onDocumentMouseDown( event ) {
// the following line would stop any other event handler from firing
// (such as the mouse's TrackballControls)
// event.preventDefault();
console.log("Click.");
// update the mouse variable
mouse.x = ( event.clientX / window.innerWidth ) * 2 - 1;
mouse.y = - ( event.clientY / window.innerHeight ) * 2 + 1;
// find intersections
// create a Ray with origin at the mouse position
// and direction into the scene (camera direction)
var vector = new THREE.Vector3( mouse.x, mouse.y, 1 );
projector.unprojectVector( vector, camera );
var ray = new THREE.Raycaster( camera.position, vector.sub( camera.position ).normalize() );
// create an array containing all objects in the scene with which the ray intersects
var intersects = ray.intersectObjects( [obj['box']] );
// if there is one (or more) intersections
if ( intersects.length > 0 )
{
console.log("Hit @ " + toString( intersects[0].point ) );
console.log(intersects);
// change the color of the closest face.
intersects[ 0 ].face.color.setRGB( 0.8 * Math.random() + 0.2, 0, 0 );
intersects[ 0 ].object.geometry.colorsNeedUpdate = true;
}
}
function toString(v) { return "[ " + v.x + ", " + v.y + ", " + v.z + " ]"; }
var render = function() {
requestAnimationFrame(render);
renderer.render(scene, camera);
};
console.log(camera);
console.log(obj['box'])
render();
</script>
</body>
This could possibly be something simple that I haven't figured out yet.
Using three.js r60