On 10/01/2013 09:42, Brent McPherson wrote:
Julian,
If I had to approach this in the tool SDK I would probably just store the
relative mouse offset that was applied while shift-dragging and add this onto
the input mouse position when not shift-dragging.
That way the spotlight position wouldn't jump or change when using
shift-dragging. (because the offset would cancel out the effect of
shift-dragging)
You should also consider sharing the source code so others can help you improve
the tool.
Thanks Brent, that sounds good. I guess it would mean that once the user
had done some Shift+LMB dragging the mouse cursor itself would no longer
sit on the specular highlight but the OGL target point would?
Source is woefully ropey and unstructured at the moment:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/69741069/jj_SpecularPlaceTool.0.5.source.rar
Lots of structural questions like whether for performance reasons it
would be better to remove the GetGeometry() queries from MouseDrag and
only renew/cache geometry when the object under the cursor has changed
and, at the same time, setup Closest Location Queries with the relevant
transforms on that change. Was getting a huge number of PointLocator
errors with my initial attempts....so it all remains dumped in the
MouseDrag function. I'm sure there are much, much better ways of doing it.
Julian
