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CannonCastRay Op

This op is deprecated!

It will not receive any updates

cast a ray and test intersection with physics bodies

Cast Ray allows you to pick 3d objects that are defined in your physics world (Ops.Physics.World).

One use case may be a 3D menu, where your buttons are cube meshes with physics cubes (Ops.Physics.Body.PhysicsCube_v2) placed in the same exact location. With Cast Ray placed in your physics world, you will be able to test when a mouse cursor intersects with one of the cubes, allowing you to use the cube as a button.

When using a Mouse OP with CastRay to pick your physics objects, make sure to directly plug in your Mouse op X/Y into the CastRay op and turn on Normalize in the Mouse OP.

Full Name

Ops.Extension.CannonJs.Deprecated.CannonCastRay

Visibility

Extension Op - Visible to all users

License

Author

pandur

github

source

Maintained by Team

CannonPhysics

Javascript Libraries

cannonjs (physics library)

Example Patch CastRay example interactive

Open In Editor

Youtube Video Tutorial

INPUT PORTS

Exec (Trigger)

Trigger in

Screen X (Number)

Position of the ray on the X axis 0.0 is the center of the screen

Screen Y (Number)

Position of the ray on the Y axis 0.0 is the center of the screen

Screen Z (Number)

Position of the ray on the Z axis 0.0 is the center of the screen

Change Cursor (Number: boolean)

OUTPUT PORTS

Next (Trigger)

Trigger out

Has Hit (Number)

if the ray intersects/hits a physics body then 1 is output

Hit X (Number)

Intersection position in world space on the X axis

Hit Y (Number)

Intersection position in world space on the Y axis

Hit Z (Number)

Intersection position in world space on the Z axis

Hit Normal X (Number)

which normal was picked on the object on X axis (-1,0,1)

Hit Normal Y (Number)

which normal was picked on the object on Y axis (-1,0,1)

Hit Normal Z (Number)

which normal was picked on the object on Z axis (-1,0,1)

Result (Object)

object containing all parameter information and some extras, inspect to see which ones are available to parse out

aabb x (Number)

aabb y (Number)

aabb z (Number)

aabb x2 (Number)

aabb y2 (Number)

aabb z2 (Number)

to x (Number)

to y (Number)

to z (Number)

from x (Number)

from y (Number)

from z (Number)

Body x (Number)

location of picked physics body on X axis

Body y (Number)

location of picked physics body on Y axis

Body z (Number)

location of picked physics body on Z axis

Name (String)

name and number of picked object - Name is set in a physics body operator and the number is assigned after it with a ".#" format

Patches using CannonCastRay

Examples
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My Patches
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Changelog

	created op	pandur - 2019-02-12 05:59
	Ops.Exp.Gl.Physics.CastRay renamed to Ops.Physics.CastRay	pandur - 2020-07-30 09:17
	Ops.Physics.CastRay renamed to Ops.Physics.Cannon.CannonCastRay	pandur - 2022-06-07 09:12
	Ops.Physics.Cannon.CannonCastRay renamed to Ops.Deprecated.Physics.Cannon.CannonCastRay	pandur - 2022-12-14 09:47
deprecation	op Ops.Extension.CannonJs.CannonCastRay was deprecated	pandur - 2024-10-21 13:46