I seem to find only examples to use the raycaster with the camera, but none that just have a raycaster from Point A to Point B.
I have a working raycaster, it retrieves my Helpers, Lines etc. but it seems it does not recognize my sphere.
My first thought was my points are off, so i decided to create a line from my pointA to my pointB with a direction like so:
var pointA = new Vector3( 50, 0, 0 );
var direction = new Vector3( 0, 1, 0 );
direction.normalize();
var distance = 100;
var pointB = new Vector3();
pointB.addVectors ( pointA, direction.multiplyScalar( distance ) );
var geometry = new Geometry();
geometry.vertices.push( pointA );
geometry.vertices.push( pointB );
var material = new LineBasicMaterial( { color : 0xff0000 } );
var line = new Line( geometry, material );
This will show a line from my point (50 0 0) to (50 100 0) right trough my sphere which is at point (50, 50, 0) so my pointA and direction values are correct.
Next i add a raycaster: To avoid conflicts with any side effects i recreated my points here:
var raycaster = new Raycaster(new Vector3( 50, 0, 0 ), new Vector3( 0, 1, 0 ).normalize());
var intersects = raycaster.intersectObject(target);
console.log(intersects);
Seems pretty straight forward to me, i also tried to use raycaster.intersectObjects(scene.children) but it gives Lines, helpers etc. but not my sphere.
What am i doing wrong? I am surely missing something here.
IMG of the line and the sphere:
