hi, i need a simple example to how folllow in 3d a object.
anybody can help me?
The objective is simple, object a follow the object b in 3d space.
My problem is the way to “orientation a to b” and “move” in orientation direction.
Thanks in advance!!!
Consider:
https://processing.org/reference/modelX_.html
Add this snippet to code (from above) and observe:
// draw another box at the same (x, y, z) coordinate as the other
pushMatrix();
translate(x, y, z);
stroke(255, 0, 0);
box(50);
println("1:", x, y, z);
popMatrix();
println("2:", x, y, z);
stroke(255, 255, 0);
strokeWeight(10);
point(x, y, z);
strokeWeight(1);
}
Tell us more.
I never used modelX() so this will be useful for me!
I assume your player b is followed by a (the camera)
My assumptions:
b is in the lead
a is always say 30 above b (y value) : a.y = b.y-30;
b moves only in x and z direction (the labyrinth for the player b)
The Position of a
a just takes the former position of b with an easing / damping
a is not allowed to go nearer than 75 or so (use dist())
The lookAt and up vector of the camera
The lookAt of the camera just use b
the up vector can stay as it is
Chrisir
Could you show me a complete example of this? yes, that’s exactly what I want, that an object B follows an object A when the distance between them is greater than a set value
No not really
You could monitor the player position in an ArrayList
This is a simple sketch for this purpose, well…
How i code the movement to B ??
int ST = 0;
object a,b;
void setup(){
size(640, 400, P3D);
}
//..................................
void draw(){
switch(ST){
case 0:
a = new object(width/2, height/2, 0);
b = new object(width, height, -300);
ST = 10;
break;
case 10:
ambientLight(255, 127, 127);
a.frame();
b.frame();
break;
}
}
//..................................
//..................................
class object{
int st = 0;
float anglex, angley, anglez;
float x, y, z;
float size = 1.0f;
PShape s;
public object(float x, float y, float z){
this.x = x;
this.y = y;
this.z = z;
}
void frame(){
switch(st){
case 0:
s = createShape(BOX, 10, 10, 10);
st = 10;
break;
case 10:
if(this==a){
// move to b..
float distance = 0; // distance between a to b?
if(distance > 20){
getOrientation(b);
this.advance3d(1.0f);
}
}
this.draw();
break;
}
}
void draw(){
pushMatrix();
translate(x, y, z);
scale(size);
rotateX(radians(anglex));
rotateY(radians(angley));
rotateZ(radians(anglez));
shapeMode(CORNERS);
shape(s);
popMatrix();
}
void getOrientation(object obj){
/*
anglex = ??
angley = ??
anglez = ??
*/
}
void advance3d(float distance_to_move){
/*
advance "distance_to_move" in 3d space in to orientation getted by anglex, angley and anglez..
*/
}
}
//..................................
//..................................
Just tinkering a bit with your code.
int ST = 0;
object a,b;
float theta = 0;
void setup()
{
size(1024, 768, P3D);
switch(ST)
{
case 0:
fill(255, 255, 0);
a = new object(0, 0, 0);
fill(255,0, 255);
b = new object(0, 0, 0);
ST = 10;
break;
case 10:
ambientLight(255, 127, 127);
a.frame();
b.frame();
break;
}
}
//..................................
void draw()
{
background(0);
translate(width/2, height/2);
println(frameRate);
theta += TAU/10;
// a.anglex = theta;
a.angley = theta;
a.anglez = theta;
a.x = 100;
// b.anglex = theta;
// b.angley = theta;
b.anglez = theta;
b.x = 150;
fill(255, 255, 0);
a.draw();
fill(255, 0, 255);
b.draw();
}
//..................................
//..................................
class object{
int st = 0;
float anglex, angley, anglez;
float x, y, z;
float size = 1.0f;
PShape s;
public object(float x, float y, float z){
this.x = x;
this.y = y;
this.z = z;
}
void frame(){
switch(st){
case 0:
s = createShape(BOX, 10, 10, 10);
st = 10;
break;
case 10:
if(this==a){
// move to b..
}
this.draw();
break;
}
}
void draw(){
pushMatrix();
//scale(size);
rotateX(radians(anglex));
rotateY(radians(angley));
rotateZ(radians(anglez));
translate(x, y, z);
shapeMode(CORNERS);
// shape(s);
box(50);
popMatrix();
}
}
//..................................
//..................................
This was playing at the time and went well with the animation:
I knew it would come in handy!
I used modelX(), modelY() and modelZ() to get the x, y, z co-ordinates and drew a line from A to B.
I will leave this as an exercise for you so you can experience the joy of coding this!
Try to understand me, I have no idea of 3d trigonometry, I do not even know what theta means, I appreciate a lot the code, but I do not know what to do with it, I just need to know how to orient in 3D one object with another and then how to do it move in that direction.
You are very kind to help me, but I do not know how to continue or modify the code.
https://processing.org/tutorials/trig/
Theta is what I used for angle.
https://processing.org/reference/modelX_.html states:
The modelX() , modelY() , and modelZ() functions record the location of a box in space after being placed using a series of translate and rotate commands.
In your code you do translations and rotations and in my example I made use of your code to do this.
I simply returned the x, y, z of each shape and drew a line:
line(a.mx, a.my, a.mz, b.mx, b.my, b.mz);
No trigonometry involved.
ok, then, how do I direct a to b? and how do I advance it to each frame?
I give you an example in 2d of what I want to achieve in 3d? It seems to me that you have not understood me.
Just follow my idea with the arraylist and what I wrote
OR
This won’t work directly but a few lines may inspire you - see function CheckCameraMouse
If it can’t be transpiled to Pjs, you should host it someplace else, like GitHub’s Gist: 
https://gist.github.com
I just had to do a Google search on that!
More for me to explore.
I understood very clearly and shared with you my thinking on this.
I did not have an example to share with you; I did write one but I will not be sharing that.
The first thing I did was start considering this without looking at other code.
I considered the “midpoint between 2 points” and wrote a general function to place a point anywhere between the two points A and B along that line.
From there I was able to move that point anywhere along a line between 2 points A and B in 3D space:
And now I am having fun with it!
Your example inspired me and I created my own project for this from scratch. Thank you!
glv
When you didn’t know lookAt, read about camera in the reference
Here is my solution:
This works like this: camera gets its position from the ball/player with a delay (easing/ damping)
LookAt = ball / Player Position
// 3D sketch: shows a ball that moves in the x/z plane (height = y = 500) and is followed by a camera.
// The goal of the sketch is to demonstrate the usage of a following camera.
// cubes
float angleCubes=45; // angle for the cubes in the scene
CameraClass cam;
PVector ballPos = new PVector (300, 500, 300);
PVector ballVel = new PVector (
random(1, 2),
0,
random(-2, -1));
// -----------------------------------------------------
void setup() {
size (1400, 800, P3D);
cam = new CameraClass ();
cam.camPos = ballPos.copy();
cam.camPos.x += 113;
cam.camPos.y -= 63;
cam.camPos.z += 113;
} // func
void draw() {
// clear canvas
background(111);
// avoid clipping : https : // forum.processing.org/two/discussion/4128/quick-q-how-close-is-too-close-why-when-do-3d-objects-disappear
perspective(PI/3.0, (float) width/height, 1, 1000000);
// apply lights
lights();
// camera follows ball
if (! (keyPressed&&key==' ')) {
cam.lookAtPVectorFollow(ballPos);
}
// apply the values of the class to the real camera
cam.set();
// move ball and draw it
if (! (keyPressed&&key=='m')) {
ballPos.add(ballVel);
}
fill(0, 255, 0); // green
noStroke();
mySphere(ballPos.x, ballPos.y, ballPos.z, 10);
// contain ball in a invisible box
contain(ballPos, ballVel);
// make the scene with the boxes
scene();
// text upper left corner
fill(0, 255, 0);
cam.HUD_text("The green ball is contained in an "
+"red field."
+"\nHold space bar to stop camera."
+"\nHold 'm' to stop the Movement of the ball.");
//
} // func
// ---------------------------------------------------
void scene () {
// Drawing of the red field
fill(255, 2, 2);//RED
noStroke();
mySphere(500, 500, 500, 20);
mySphere(100, 500, 100, 20);
mySphere(100, 500, 500, 20);
mySphere(500, 500, 100, 20);
//
// rect
stroke(255, 2, 2);//RED
line(500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 100);//up
line(500, 500, 100, 100, 500, 100); //left
line(100, 500, 100, 100, 500, 500 ); // down
line(100, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500 ); // down
stroke(0);
float z ;
// one wall of boxes
for (int x = 10; x < 600; x+= 100)
{
fill(x/3, 2, 2);
for (int y = 10; y < 600; y+= 100)
{
z = -600;
myBox(x, y, z, 24);
// println ( "Box: " + x + ", "+y+ " "+z);
}
fill(0, 0, 254);
z=-800;
myBox(x, 10, z, 24);
}
//
// a few additional boxes
fill(0, 0, 254);
z=-400;
myBox(220, 10, z, 24);
myBox(600, 10, z, 24);
z=-400;
myBox(220, 510, z, 24);
myBox(600, 510, z, 24);
z=399;
myBox(220, 510, z, 24);
myBox(600, 510, z, 24);
z=900;
myBox(220, 510, z, 24);
myBox(600, 510, z, 24);
angleCubes++;
//
}
void myBox(float x, float y, float z,
float size1) {
// one nice wrapper for build in box-command
pushMatrix();
translate(x, y, z);
rotateY(radians(angleCubes));
rotateX(radians(45));
box(size1);
popMatrix();
}
void mySphere(float x, float y, float z,
float size1) {
// one nice wrapper for build in sphere-command
pushMatrix();
translate(x, y, z);
sphere(size1);
popMatrix();
}
void contain(PVector ballPos, PVector ballVel) {
// contain ball
if (ballPos.x>500)
ballVel.x=abs(ballVel.x)*-1;
if (ballPos.z>500)
ballVel.z=abs(ballVel.z)*-1;
if (ballPos.x<100)
ballVel.x=abs(ballVel.x);
if (ballPos.z<100)
ballVel.z=abs(ballVel.z);
}
//
// ===============================================
class CameraClass {
// capsules the normal camera() command and its vectors
PVector camPos; // its vectors
PVector camLookAt;
PVector camUp;
PVector camPosInitial; // its vectors - the default (unchanged)
PVector camLookAtInitial;
PVector camUpInitial;
// for follow
PVector camWhereItShouldBe = new PVector(0, 0, 0);
PVector camAdd = new PVector(0, -60, 0);
float easing = .019; // .07; // how fast it changes
float camCurrentAngle=0;// -90; // for cam rotation around itself (around Y-axis)
float camRadius; // same situation
// constructor without parameters
CameraClass() {
// constr
// set vectors
camPos = new PVector(width/2.0, height/2.0, 990);
camLookAt = new PVector(width/2.0, height/2.0, -600);
camUp = new PVector( 0, 1, 0 );
// save the initial values
camPosInitial = camPos.get();
camLookAtInitial = camLookAt.get();
camUpInitial = camUp.get();
} // constr
// ----------------------------------------
void set() {
// apply vectors to actual camera
camera (camPos.x, camPos.y, camPos.z,
camLookAt.x, camLookAt.y, camLookAt.z,
camUp.x, camUp.y, camUp.z);
}
void setLookAt (float x1, float y1, float z1) {
camLookAt = new PVector(x1, y1, z1);
}
void lookAtPVectorFollowOnlyLookAt(PVector followMe) {
// follows a player (e.g.)
// change only look at
camLookAt = followMe.get();
}
void lookAtPVectorFollow (PVector followMe) {
// follows a ball / player (e.g.)
// complete following (lookAt and camPos)
// manage Look At
camLookAt = followMe.get();
// manage position of the camera
float easing = 0.0198;
// x
camPos.x += (followMe.x-camPos.x) * easing;
// y
// camPos.y += (followMe.y-camPos.y) * easing -20;
camPos.y = followMe.y - 50; // other principle for y by the way
// z
camPos.z += (followMe.z-camPos.z) * easing;
}
void printData() {
println ( "Cam at " + camPos
+ " looking at " + camLookAt
+ " (angle = "
+camCurrentAngle
+").");
}
void HUD_text (String a1) {
// HUD text upper left corner
// this must be called at the very end of draw()
// this is a 2D HUD
camera();
hint(DISABLE_DEPTH_TEST);
noLights();
// ------------------
textSize(16);
text (a1, 20, 20);
// ------------------
// reset all parameters to defaults
textAlign(LEFT, BASELINE);
rectMode(CORNER);
textSize(32);
hint(ENABLE_DEPTH_TEST); // no HUD anymore
lights();
} // method
//
} // class
// ======================================