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Detect Camera's relative position to a box collider like in Holograms App
In the built in Holograms app, I found that the "menu" ("adjust" button and "delete" button) will show up at different side of the box collider according to user's relative position to the Holograms, so as user goes to the other side of the Hologram, the menu also goes to the other side of the Hologram.
I am trying to implement this functionality in Unity. But I cannot figure out the logic behind to decide where the menu should shows up.
Any hints?
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Okay, after two hours of work, finally find the pattern so that we can actually just use the x and z coordinate (it's more than just larger or smaller than zero) to decide the relative position of Camera to the target object.
In case someone encountered the same issue or just curious, here is my implementation:
Vector3 tempDiff = camera.position - transform.position;
if (Mathf.Abs(tempDiff.x) < Mathf.Abs(tempDiff.z))
{
if (tempDiff.z < 0)
{
Debug.Log("At Front");
}
else
{Debug.Log("At Back"); } } else { if (tempDiff.x < 0) { Debug.Log("At Left"); } else { Debug.Log("At Right"); } }One issue though, this function need to be in the update (or a while true coroutine), so this solution eats up a lot of performance since it is doing calculations constantly. So if anyone has a better solution for detecting camera's relative position to the object, I am happy to hear about it.
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Okay, after two hours of work, finally find the pattern so that we can actually just use the x and z coordinate (it's more than just larger or smaller than zero) to decide the relative position of Camera to the target object.
In case someone encountered the same issue or just curious, here is my implementation:
Vector3 tempDiff = camera.position - transform.position;
if (Mathf.Abs(tempDiff.x) < Mathf.Abs(tempDiff.z))
{
if (tempDiff.z < 0)
{
Debug.Log("At Front");
}
else
{
Debug.Log("At Back"); } } else { if (tempDiff.x < 0) { Debug.Log("At Left"); } else { Debug.Log("At Right"); } }One issue though, this function need to be in the update (or a while true coroutine), so this solution eats up a lot of performance since it is doing calculations constantly. So if anyone has a better solution for detecting camera's relative position to the object, I am happy to hear about it.