What's the best method to "look at" my mouse cursor?

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2022-04-20 at 2:59 pm #51219

coozoh
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Hi, quite new to Verge3D so apologies if this has already been answered. I’m looking for the best solution for getting my objects to look at where my cursor is, so when i move my mouse to the left the objects rotate to the left, etc. Essentially something like the example below. What’s the best method of achieving this?

https://superlist.com/

Thanks!

2022-04-20 at 4:54 pm #51222

xeon
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The question you seem to be asking is different than the example. The example is animation triggered by mouse scroll. If this is what you are looking for take a look a the Swiss Army knife demo in the app manager

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2022-04-20 at 5:15 pm #51224

coozoh
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Not quite, it was moreso the first animation that gets loaded as screenshotted. The items in the scene point slightly towards the mouse when ever it is moved in any direction?

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2022-04-20 at 6:41 pm #51226

xeon
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Lots of options to achieve that subtle movement.

You can add a track to or look at constraint. You could use orbit constrained to amount of rotation and eliminate it at a scroll distance. You can specify object rotation based on mouse mouse or touch location. Sure the are other options too.

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2022-04-22 at 1:09 pm #51284

coozoh
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Thanks for your response! How would I go about getting a variable for the mouse position, I guess I would have to get its x and y position from the percentage page width or some other way?

2022-04-22 at 7:41 pm #51290

xeon
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You may want to try the following:

https://www.soft8soft.com/docs/manual/en/puzzles/Camera.html#get_camera_direction

It gives the puzzles for how an option tracks mouse movements.

For more custom solutions you may want to look at:

https://www.soft8soft.com/docs/api/en/core/Raycaster.html

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