RayCaster question

is it possible to do a raycast from a point to another point, instead of from a point giving it a direction and than a distance?

This will help me very much, or do you have a script that converts 2 positions to a direction and distance?

Thanks,

Dutchie

I hope that this is correct:

Ogre::Vector3 Diff = Target - Origin;
Ogre::Vector3 Direction = Diff.normalisedCopy();
float distance = Diff.length();


I hope that this is correct:

Ogre::Vector3 Diff = Target - Origin;
Ogre::Vector3 Direction = Diff.normalisedCopy();
float distance = Diff.length();

Yup. You can optimize it a bit, though:

Ogre::Vector3 dir = target - origin;
Ogre::Real dist = dir.normalise();

This way you only do one sqrt, instead of doing it one time for the normalise and another for the length (normalise returns the previous length).

thanks, i will try that...