I am struggling to find the way to rotate the object at its center. At the moment i am able to rotate the scene, but when i do the rotation, the object goes away from the user. I look into the some the already asked questions in the same line on the forum, but couldn't able to get it work. Below is the part of the html/three.js file i am using /attached you will find the complete working example.Any help is greatly appreciated
<script src="../build/three.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/controls/TrackballControls.js"></script>
<script src="js/libs/stats.min.js"></script>
<script>
var container, stats;
var camera, controls, scene, renderer;
var pickingData = [], pickingTexture, pickingScene;
var objects = [];
var highlightBox;
var splitCoord;
var avStdProp;
var mouse = new THREE.Vector2();
var offset = new THREE.Vector3( 10, 10, 10 );
var geom = new THREE.BoxGeometry(0.005, 0.005, 0.005 );
geom.colorsNeedUpdate = true;
init();
animate();
function init() {
container = document.getElementById( "container" );
camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera( 70, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 1, 10000 );
camera.position.x=250;
camera.position.y=300;
camera.position.z=400;
renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer( { antialias: true } );
controls = new THREE.TrackballControls(camera);
controls.rotateSpeed = 1.0;
controls.zoomSpeed = 4;
controls.panSpeed = 0.8;
controls.noZoom = false;
controls.noPan = false;
controls.staticMoving = true;
controls.dynamicDampingFactor = 0.3;
scene = new THREE.Scene();
pickingScene = new THREE.Scene();
pickingTexture = new THREE.WebGLRenderTarget(800, 800);
pickingTexture.minFilter = THREE.LinearFilter;
pickingTexture.generateMipmaps = false;
scene.add( new THREE.AmbientLight( 0x555555 ) );
var light = new THREE.SpotLight( 0xffffff, 1.5 );
light.position.set( 0, 500, 2000 );
scene.add( light );
var geometry = new THREE.Geometry(),
pickingGeometry = new THREE.Geometry(),
pickingMaterial = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial( { vertexColors: THREE.VertexColors } ),
defaultMaterial = new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial({ color: 0xffffff, shading: THREE.FlatShading, vertexColors: THREE.VertexColors } );
function applyVertexColors( g, c ) {
g.faces.forEach( function( f ) {
var n = ( f instanceof THREE.Face3 ) ? 3 : 4;
for( var j = 0; j < n; j ++ ) {
f.vertexColors[ j ] = c;
}
} );
}
var color = new THREE.Color();
var matrix = new THREE.Matrix4();
var quaternion = new THREE.Quaternion();
var coord="219_163_189;130_173_179;161_113_231;92_103_176;169_193_180;161_165_187;262_163_166;198_143_155;161_189_155;125_121_107";
splitCoord=coord.split(";");
var coordColr="0_255_255;255_255_0;0_0_255;0_255_0;255_255_0;0_255_0;0_0_255;0_255_255;255_255_0;210_210_45";
var splitCoordColor=coordColr.split(";");
var avgStd="1_0;3_0;0_0;2_0;3_0;2_0;0_0;1_0;3_0;3_0.35";
avStdProp=avgStd.split(";");
for ( var i = 0; i < splitCoord.length; i++ ) {
var position = new THREE.Vector3();
var xyz=splitCoord[i].split("_");
var col=splitCoordColor[i].split("_");
position.x = xyz[0];
position.y = xyz[1];
position.z = xyz[2];
var rotation = new THREE.Euler();
rotation.x = 0
rotation.y = 0;
rotation.z = 0;
var scale = new THREE.Vector3();
scale.x = 200 + 100;
scale.y = 200 + 100;
scale.z = 200 + 100;
quaternion.setFromEuler( rotation, false );
matrix.compose( position, quaternion, scale );
// give the geom's vertices a random color, to be displayed
col[0]=col[0]/255;
col[1]=col[1]/255;
col[2]=col[2]/255;
applyVertexColors(geom, color.setRGB(col[0], col[1], col[2]));
geometry.merge( geom, matrix );
// give the geom's vertices a color corresponding to the "id"
applyVertexColors( geom, color.setHex( i ) );
pickingGeometry.merge( geom, matrix );
pickingData[ i ] = {
position: position,
rotation: rotation,
scale: scale
};
}
var drawnObject = new THREE.Mesh( geometry, defaultMaterial );
scene.add( drawnObject );
pickingScene.add( new THREE.Mesh( pickingGeometry, pickingMaterial ) );
highlightBox = new THREE.Mesh(
new THREE.BoxGeometry( 0.009, 0.009, 0.009 ),
new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial( { color: 0xffffff }
) );
scene.add( highlightBox );
//renderer.setClearColor( 0xffffff );
renderer.setPixelRatio( window.devicePixelRatio );
renderer.setSize(800,800);
renderer.sortObjects = false;
container.appendChild( renderer.domElement );
renderer.domElement.addEventListener( 'mousemove', onMouseMove );
}
//
function onMouseMove( e ) {
mouse.x = e.clientX;
mouse.y = e.clientY;
}
function pick() {
//render the picking scene off-screen
renderer.render( pickingScene, camera, pickingTexture );
//create buffer for reading single pixel
var pixelBuffer = new Uint8Array( 4 );
//read the pixel under the mouse from the texture
renderer.readRenderTargetPixels(pickingTexture, mouse.x+window.pageXOffset, pickingTexture.height - (mouse.y+window.pageYOffset), 1, 1, pixelBuffer);
//interpret the pixel as an ID
var id = ( pixelBuffer[0] << 16 ) | ( pixelBuffer[1] << 8 ) | ( pixelBuffer[2]);
var data = pickingData[ id ];
if (data) {
//move our highlightBox so that it surrounds the picked object
if (data.position && data.rotation && data.scale && controls.enabled){
highlightBox.position.copy( data.position );
highlightBox.rotation.copy( data.rotation );
highlightBox.scale.copy( data.scale ).add( offset );
highlightBox.visible = true;
}
}
else {
highlightBox.visible = false;
}
}
function animate() {
requestAnimationFrame( animate );
render();
//stats.update();
}
function render() {
controls.update();
pick();
renderer.render(scene, camera);
}
any help?
You can set your objects geometry to center, so the center of the mesh will then be at position (0,0,0) and it wont "move away" while rotating.
Do it like this:
Update
Because you want to use picking in an unusual way by saving your geometrys coordinates into an array, centering the geometry doesnt help you. Your question was "Rotate the mergeometry object at its center", but it seems like you want to rotate the camera around your geometrys center.
Calculate the bounding sphere of your geometry and set the controls target to its position: