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Obtaining a perpendicular point?
Hi guys!
So I am trying to create a wall with procedural geometry. What I want Is the users to click on two points, and that rectangular 3d object to be created .
What this means, is that I get two Vector3 information, and that I need to get 8 points that change in relation to those initial two Vector 3 (along the x and z axis)
Scaling down the problem to a single point, I still cannot get my head around the problem with an easy solution.
The only possible solution that i have come up with is rather complicated... It involves checking the relation between the values of x and z, between the two points in order to determine the value of the perpendicular point.
They would be a need of eight algorithms (for each case where the values are greater than or equal than...
***If the value of X of point B is larger than the vale of X in point A, }
***And
***if the value of Z is equal in point B and A
***Then, the perpendicular point one, in A, should be x+Some quantity.
I´m feeling that I´m complicating myself too much... is there a simpler solution?
Thanks!!
Here is the Code that I´m using to generate a cube, for reference.
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
public class MeshClick : MonoBehaviour {
public List<Vector3> newVertices = new List<Vector3>();
public List<int> newTriangles = new List<int>();
public List<Vector2> newUV = new List<Vector2>();
private Mesh mesh;
private Vector3 hitInfo;
private bool hasHit = false;
private float x;
private float y;
private float z;
private Ray ray;
public Camera cam;
public float size = 2;
private float tUnit = 0.25f;
private Vector2 tStone = new Vector2 (0, 0);
private Vector2 tGrass = new Vector2 (0, 1);
void Update ()
{
if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
{
ray = cam.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
RaycastHit hit = new RaycastHit();
if (Physics.Raycast (ray, out hit))
{
print("true" + hit.point);
}
//hitInfo = ray.GetPoint;
mesh = GetComponent<MeshFilter> ().mesh;
x = hit.point.x;
y = hit.point.y;
z = hit.point.z;
//Front
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x , y , z ));
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x + size , y , z ));
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x + size , y-size , z ));
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x , y-size , z ));
newTriangles.Add(0);
newTriangles.Add(1);
newTriangles.Add(3);
newTriangles.Add(1);
newTriangles.Add(2);
newTriangles.Add(3);
//Triangles();
//AddTexture();
//bottom
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x , y -size , z));
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x + size , y -size , z));
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x + size , y -size , z + size ));
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x , y -size , z + size ));
//Triangles();
newTriangles.Add(4);
newTriangles.Add(5);
newTriangles.Add(7);
newTriangles.Add(5);
newTriangles.Add(6);
newTriangles.Add(7);
//Left
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x , y - size , z + size));
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x , y , z + size));
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x , y , z ));
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x , y - size , z ));
newTriangles.Add(8);
newTriangles.Add(9);
newTriangles.Add(11);
newTriangles.Add(9);
newTriangles.Add(10);
newTriangles.Add(11);
//right
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x +size , y , z + size));
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x +size , y - size ,z + size));
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x +size , y - size , z ));
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x +size , y , z ));
newTriangles.Add(12);
newTriangles.Add(13);
newTriangles.Add(15);
newTriangles.Add(13);
newTriangles.Add(14);
newTriangles.Add(15);
//top
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x , y ,z+size));
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x+size , y , z+size ));
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x+size , y , z));
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x , y , z));
newTriangles.Add(16);
newTriangles.Add(17);
newTriangles.Add(19);
newTriangles.Add(17);
newTriangles.Add(18);
newTriangles.Add(19);
//back
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x +size , y-size , z +size));
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x +size , y , z + size));
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x , y , z + size ));
newVertices.Add( new Vector3 (x , y -size , z + size));
newTriangles.Add(20);
newTriangles.Add(21);
newTriangles.Add(23);
newTriangles.Add(21);
newTriangles.Add(22);
newTriangles.Add(23);
UpdateMesh ();
}
}
void Triangles()
{
}
void UpdateMesh ()
{
mesh.Clear ();
mesh.vertices = newVertices.ToArray();
mesh.triangles = newTriangles.ToArray();
mesh.Optimize ();
mesh.RecalculateNormals ();
}
void AddTexture()
{
newUV.Add(new Vector2 (tUnit * tStone.x, tUnit * tStone.y + tUnit));
newUV.Add(new Vector2 (tUnit * tStone.x + tUnit, tUnit * tStone.y + tUnit));
newUV.Add(new Vector2 (tUnit * tStone.x + tUnit, tUnit * tStone.y));
newUV.Add(new Vector2 (tUnit * tStone.x, tUnit * tStone.y));
}
}
Answer by fafase · May 11, 2015 at 01:09 PM
I would think if you cross product your vector with a vector from the ground, that should return the expected vector.
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