Hi, OF forum!
I have lots of rectangles randomly located in 3d space. I want each of the rectangles can be clicked and it will move to the center of the screen. I know that ofxMSAInteractiveObject or ofWorldToScreen may be useful but I’m not sure whether they can do the hit test in 3d space.
Thanks!
ofWorldToScreen will give you the screen coordinates of a point in space, so you’ll probably want to use it on all your rectangles: this way, for every rectangle, you’ll be able to find 4 points on your screen.
At this point you’ll just have to check if your mouse pointer is between your points; if your rectangles are billboarded, something like:
//x,y -> mouse coords
//p1, p2, p3, p4 -> your rectangle vertices projected on screen
if(x>p1.x && x<p2.x && y>p1.y && y<p3.y){...
will probably be good enough; otherwise, if your rectangles are a warped, just google on how to find out if a point is inside a polygon.
Last consideration: if your rectangles can overlap one each other, you’ll probably want to index them depending on their z position and start your mouse tests with closest rectangle.