How to select a position for displaying Holograms?

Afreen_Firdous26

Hi,

I am trying to develop an application whose flow need to be like this
1.Allowing me to select a position.
2. At that position only I need to display the Hololgram object.

until I select a particular position my application shouldn't proceed.Do we have anyway to do this task?Please let me know how can I do this.

HoloSheep

@Afreen_Firdous26

One approach would be to hide your gameObject (aka Hologram object) in design mode so that it is not displaying when your app starts.

You would set your

SpatialMappingManager.Instance.DrawVisualMeshes = true;

in a Start script so that it begins mapping your environment when the app starts and is in a mode that would allow the user to tapToPlace somewhere to position your gameObject.

You would need a variable to reference the gameObject that you want to place, something like:

Public gameObject CurrentHologram;

which you would drag a reference of your Hologram gameObject into in the IDE.

You would also need a TapToPlace (see HoloToolkit) like script that was modified to place your CurrentHologram object when the place logic runs.

If you declared your

bool placing = true;

instead of false to start with, you could leverage most of the current TapToPlace logic almost as is.

HTH.

Afreen_Firdous26

Hi HoloSheep,

Thanks for the clue. I was able to do place the object at specified location.