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Unity3d. Camera touch movement
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11497085/move-camera-over-terrain-using-touch-input-in-unity-3d/27836741#27836741
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class ViewDrag : MonoBehaviour {
Vector3 hit_position = Vector3.zero;
Vector3 current_position = Vector3.zero;
Vector3 camera_position = Vector3.zero;
float z = 0.0f;
// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
}
void Update(){
if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)){
hit_position = Input.mousePosition;
camera_position = transform.position;
}
if(Input.GetMouseButton(0)){
current_position = Input.mousePosition;
LeftMouseDrag();
}
}
void LeftMouseDrag(){
// From the Unity3D docs: "The z position is in world units from the camera." In my case I'm using the y-axis as height
// with my camera facing back down the y-axis. You can ignore this when the camera is orthograhic.
current_position.z = hit_position.z = camera_position.y;
// Get direction of movement. (Note: Don't normalize, the magnitude of change is going to be Vector3.Distance(current_position-hit_position)
// anyways.
Vector3 direction = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(current_position) - Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(hit_position);
// Invert direction to that terrain appears to move with the mouse.
direction = direction * -1;
Vector3 position = camera_position + direction;
transform.position = position;
}
}
private Vector2 worldStartPoint;
void Update () {
// only work with one touch
if (Input.touchCount == 1) {
Touch currentTouch = Input.GetTouch(0);
if (currentTouch.phase == TouchPhase.Began) {
this.worldStartPoint = this.getWorldPoint(currentTouch.position);
}
if (currentTouch.phase == TouchPhase.Moved) {
Vector2 worldDelta = this.getWorldPoint(currentTouch.position) - this.worldStartPoint;
Camera.main.transform.Translate(
-worldDelta.x,
-worldDelta.y,
0
);
}
}
}
// convert screen point to world point
private Vector2 getWorldPoint (Vector2 screenPoint) {
RaycastHit hit;
Physics.Raycast(Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(screenPoint), out hit);
return hit.point;
}
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