Clipping in world space

[berry4u]

can anyone give hints about clipping in world space by using IClipBox?
There's no code sample about it.

Thanks a lot

[fahadm]

I mean the IClipbox basically just works in world space, just populate the scale (diagonal of your matrix) and the position of your matrix (that is passed to the IClipBox), the position of the matrix will represent the position of the clip box and scale will determine its size in x,y and z. (note the Clipbox will have its centered around the matrix position)

[berry4u]

Thank you for answering.
Despite making many attempts I could not get clipping to work.
Could you please post a code snippet?

[berry4u]

OK, now it works.
However, I noticed that an important clipmode is missing such as CLIP_INSIDE (very useful when overlapping point clouds with other models) despite being proposed here (https://github.com/pnext/three-loader/pull/43/files/a528b88ea4ae1100e389b2553075704b57022337) along with other improvements.
is there any advancement on it?

[mandre96]

I Wasn't able to make ClipBox Work.

When I activate it it clips all the point cloud, even tho I created a box geometry and assign it correctly to the IClipBox.

`
//Creates Geometry
const boxGeometry = new THREE.BoxGeometry(1, 1, 1);
boxGeometry.computeBoundingBox();

    const boxFrameGeometry = this.generateBoxFrameGeometry();
    const planeFrameGeometry = this.generatePlaneFrameGeometry();
  
    this._material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial( {
		color: 0x00ff00, 
		transparent: true, 
		opacity: 0.3,
		depthTest: true, 
		depthWrite: false} );
    
    //Box Mesh
    this._box = new THREE.Mesh(boxGeometry, this._material);
    this._box.geometry.computeBoundingBox();
    this.add(this._box);

    //Box Frame
    this._frame = new THREE.LineSegments( boxFrameGeometry, new THREE.LineBasicMaterial({color: 0x000000}));
	this.add(this._frame);
	this._planeFrame = new THREE.LineSegments( planeFrameGeometry, new THREE.LineBasicMaterial({color: 0xff0000}));
	this.add(this._planeFrame);

	// set default thickness
	this.setScaleZ(0.1);
    
    const mat = this._box.matrix.clone();
    const inverse = mat.invert();
    
    this._clipBox = {box: this._box.geometry.boundingBox!, inverse:inverse , matrix:this._box.matrix, position: this.position};
    }

public update(): void {
this._box.geometry.computeBoundingBox();
const mat = this._box.matrix.clone();
const inverse = mat.invert();

    //updates clipbox
    this._clipBox.box = this._box.geometry.boundingBox!;
    this._clipBox.inverse = inverse;
	this._clipBox.position = this.position;

}

`

In my Large Clouds Manager:

`
public setClipMode(value:ClipMode)
{
for (let index = 0; index < this._largeScaleClouds.length; index++) {
const potreeCloud = this._largeScaleClouds[index];
potreeCloud.material.clipMode = value
}
}

/**

• Sets clip boxes for all scene
• @param clipBoxes
  */
  public setClipBoxes(clipBoxes:IClipBox[]){
  for (let index = 0; index < this._largeScaleClouds.length; index++) {
  const potreeCloud = this._largeScaleClouds[index];
  potreeCloud.material.setClipBoxes(clipBoxes);
  }
  }

`

Highlight inside:

https://freeimage.host/i/J9vqlUX