How to rotate around a sphere?

Processing Coding Questions
22

add this to camx and camy

23

map() is not necessary if you work directly with radians.
frameCount() works just fine.
You can work directly in radians.
frameCount is already counting.

Simple one line solution for 1 deg increments:

float angle = frameCount* (TAU/360); // 1 deg = TAU/360 rad = TWO_PI/360 rad

It does the job! I use it all the time.

@raboytniksings An example for you using TAU (same as TWO_PI):

void setup() 
	{
  size(500, 500, P3D);
	}

void draw()
  {
  background(0);
  
  float angle = frameCount* (TAU/360);
  
  translate(width/2, height/2, 0);
  rotateY(angle);
  
  sphereDetail(10);
  noFill();
  stroke(256, 128, 0);
  sphere(100);
  }

Reference:
TAU / Reference / Processing.org

:)

24

Hello,

I just did a bit of cleanup and did not make the final tweaks:

void setup() 
	{
  size(600, 600, P3D);
  textAlign(CENTER, CENTER); //Centers text
  textSize(24); //Much cleaner text output
	}

void draw() {
  background(0);
  lights();
  
  float angle = frameCount*TAU/360;
  
  float cam_x = 350 * cos(angle);
  float cam_z = 350 * sin(angle);
  camera(cam_x, 43, cam_z, 128, 43, 0, 0, 1, 0);

  //fill(128, 0, 128);
  noFill();
  stroke(128, 0, 128);
  //lights();
 
 push();  
  translate(128, 43, 0);
  sphereDetail(10);
  sphere(100);
  fill(255, 255, 0);
  text("S1", 0, 0); //Center of sphere
 pop(); 

  text("S2", 128, 43, 0); //Center of sphere Same as S1!
  
  fill(255, 0, 0);
  //text("0, 0, 00000000000000000000000", 0, 0);
  text("O", 0, 0, 0); //(0, 0, 0) co-ordinates
  }

Added push() and pop() so you can compare coordinates.
Some comments in code.

You are well on your way to completing this!

:)

25

Thanks a lot to both of you. I was indeed missing an argument in the x position of the camera. It works as expected now.

26

I always write it with line breaks

camera(cam_x, 43, cam_z, // cam pos 
 128, 43, 0,   // cam lookAt
  0, 1, 0);

Here is an example


float angleCam = 0; 
float angleBox = 0; 

float camRadius = 350; 
float camRelativeHeightAboveBox = 76; 

float box_x=500;
float box_y=400;
float box_z=-200;

void setup() {
  size(1600, 600, P3D);
}

void draw() {
  background(0);
  lights();

  float cam_x = camRadius * cos(angleCam) + box_x;
  float cam_y = box_y - camRelativeHeightAboveBox; 
  float cam_z = camRadius * sin(angleCam) + box_z;

  camera(cam_x, cam_y, cam_z, // pos cam
    box_x, box_y, box_z, // lookAt cam 
    0, 1, 0); // UP 

  showBox();

  angleCam +=  0.01411;
}

void showBox() {
  // green box
  pushMatrix(); 
  translate (box_x, box_y, box_z); 
  rotateY(angleBox);

  stroke(0); 
  fill(0, 255, 0); //green
  box(21);

  angleBox-= 0.0401411;
  popMatrix();

  //------------------------------------------------

  // red sphere 
  pushMatrix(); 
  translate (box_x+133, box_y, box_z);
  noStroke();
  fill(255, 0, 0); //red
  sphere(9);
  popMatrix();
}