Re: pfPick again...

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scheff++at++iff.fhg.de
Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:50:29 +0100


Hi Brad,

> Sometime back I asked about how to use pfPick, which allows you to
> use the mouse to "Pick" polygons. Well, I got one reply that, although
> I appreciate, did not match my problem.
>
> If there is anyone out there who has successfully used pfPick, please
> let me in on your secret. SG, in classic form, has no documentation
> on this. The man page actually tells the user to refer to the
> include file.

We choosed a fully other way because we are Vega users. To pick something we
used a line-of-sight-Isector. The origin was copied from observer. The
direction is set using the coordinates of mouse pointer transformed into real
world coords. We - my girlfriend and me - needed from Sunday evening until
Monday morning to implement this. It works nice. (Our greatest problem was to
change our motion model to free the left button for picking. ;-)) If you can't
solve your problem not at all you could think about such or similar solution
like our.
I guess pfPick is a similar solution for convinience, isn't it?

Best regards,
Dirk.

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