User click on window : where is it in 3D space ?
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Hi,
I'm currently programming a chess game (with C# and MDX). I managed to make the camera moving smoothly around the chessboard using spherical coordinates, but I don't know how to detect where user clicked. If a user clicks somewhere on screen, I need to know on which cell he clicked. And I don't have any clue how to do it... Collision ? Computing knowing the camera position ? I really don't have a clue. I guess a lot of maths are behind that problem so I'm just asking here.
screenshot : http://xboxemul.free.fr/screen.jpg
sourcecode : http://xboxemul.free.fr/esieaChess.zip
Regards.
You need to send a ray from the point that the user clicked along the view point of the camera. I believe this is called picking, which would be a good keyword for you to [google]
If you cannot find the resources yourself, post back here and I will give you some sample code.
If you cannot find the resources yourself, post back here and I will give you some sample code.
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Thank you for the tip, I googled "Picking DirectX" and I came across that page.
http://www.thehazymind.com/archives/2005/10/tutorial_9_picking_objects_fro.htm
In fact there's a picking demo in the DX SDK but it's a C++ sample and the code is pretty unclear (everything is in a big cpp file...). Well I guess I have to work around this now. Thanks a lot.
http://www.thehazymind.com/archives/2005/10/tutorial_9_picking_objects_fro.htm
In fact there's a picking demo in the DX SDK but it's a C++ sample and the code is pretty unclear (everything is in a big cpp file...). Well I guess I have to work around this now. Thanks a lot.
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