Map Mouse to Camera View

vvvv beta question
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Hello everybody,

I am trying to drag some Quads around in Renderer with Button 3D. The Problem is, that i don’t know how to map the mouse coordinates to the cameras view frustum, so that I can drag the quads with one mousemovement from one edge of the renderer to the other.

I was playing all day with Transformations, but still got no clue.

mouse_map.v4p (22.1 KB)

Someone can help?

Greetings,

Alex

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do these demos help?

girlpower\Transformations\Drag
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Hi joreg,

I already had a close look at those examples, but I need to move the Quads in 3D Space. Button 3d helps a lot to get the hit, but once a camera is connected to the Renderer, I don’t know how to get the drag working, since -1 to 1 doesn’t work, when the camera is translated in the z-axis.

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To move something in screenspace you can multiply with inverse view rotation, you can check pointeditor 3d there is logic for that

if i get you correct here
mouse_map_1.v4p (23.8 KB)

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Hey, thank you. That helped a lot! Your contrib is great, btw.

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I’m sorry that I have to bring this up again, but I just can’t figure it out. I start getting pretty desperate, so maybe someone has an idea. I made another patch to clarify the problem.

matrix_mapping_problem.v4p (21.2 KB)

When connecting the inverted view rotation I don’t get the desired effect. I tried every transform node that I could find, and tried to combine them, but that’s just guessing, since I don’t understand the mathematics of transformations.

Greetings,

Alex

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Will check when I can…

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