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Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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//! This example shows how to align the orientations of objects in 3D space along two axes using the `Transform::align` API.
Simpler lint fixes: makes `ci lints` work but disables a lint for now (#15376) Takes the first two commits from #15375 and adds suggestions from this comment: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/15375#issuecomment-2366968300 See #15375 for more reasoning/motivation. ## Rebasing (rerunning) ```rust git switch simpler-lint-fixes git reset --hard main cargo fmt --all -- --unstable-features --config normalize_comments=true,imports_granularity=Crate cargo fmt --all git add --update git commit --message "rustfmt" cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features --fix cargo fmt --all -- --unstable-features --config normalize_comments=true,imports_granularity=Crate cargo fmt --all git add --update git commit --message "clippy" git cherry-pick e6c0b94f6795222310fb812fa5c4512661fc7887 ```
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use bevy::{
color::palettes::basic::{GRAY, RED, WHITE},
input::mouse::{AccumulatedMouseMotion, MouseButtonInput},
math::StableInterpolate,
prelude::*,
};
Switch to portable RNG in examples (#12644) # Objective Fixes issue #12613 - the RNG used in examples is _deterministic_, but its implementation is not _portable_ across platforms. We want to switch to using a portable RNG that does not vary across platforms, to ensure certain examples play out the same way every time. ## Solution Replace all occurences of `rand::rngs::StdRng` with `rand_chacha::ChaCha8Rng`, as recommended in issue #12613 --- ## Changelog - Add `rand_chacha` as a new dependency (controversial?) - Replace all occurences of `rand::rngs::StdRng` with `rand_chacha::ChaCha8Rng`
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use rand::{Rng, SeedableRng};
use rand_chacha::ChaCha8Rng;
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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fn main() {
App::new()
.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)
.add_systems(Startup, setup)
Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
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.add_systems(Update, (draw_ship_axes, draw_random_axes))
.add_systems(Update, (handle_keypress, handle_mouse, rotate_ship).chain())
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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.run();
}
Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
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/// This struct stores metadata for a single rotational move of the ship
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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#[derive(Component, Default)]
Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
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struct Ship {
/// The target transform of the ship move, the endpoint of interpolation
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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target_transform: Transform,
Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
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/// Whether the ship is currently in motion; allows motion to be paused
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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in_motion: bool,
}
#[derive(Component)]
Refactor align example to use `Dir3` random sampling (#13259) # Objective Since `align` was introduced, it has been reworked to allow the input of `Dir3` instead of `Vec3`, and we also introduced random sampling for points on a sphere and then for `Dir3`. Previously, this example rolled its own random generation, but it doesn't need to any more. ## Solution Refactor the 'align' example to use `Dir3` instead of `Vec3`, using the `bevy_math` API for random directions.
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struct RandomAxes(Dir3, Dir3);
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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#[derive(Component)]
struct Instructions;
#[derive(Resource)]
struct MousePressed(bool);
make align deterministic with a seeded random (#12518) # Objective - Make example align deterministic so that it's easier to check for regression ## Solution - Use a seeded random
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#[derive(Resource)]
Switch to portable RNG in examples (#12644) # Objective Fixes issue #12613 - the RNG used in examples is _deterministic_, but its implementation is not _portable_ across platforms. We want to switch to using a portable RNG that does not vary across platforms, to ensure certain examples play out the same way every time. ## Solution Replace all occurences of `rand::rngs::StdRng` with `rand_chacha::ChaCha8Rng`, as recommended in issue #12613 --- ## Changelog - Add `rand_chacha` as a new dependency (controversial?) - Replace all occurences of `rand::rngs::StdRng` with `rand_chacha::ChaCha8Rng`
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struct SeededRng(ChaCha8Rng);
make align deterministic with a seeded random (#12518) # Objective - Make example align deterministic so that it's easier to check for regression ## Solution - Use a seeded random
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Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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// Setup
fn setup(
mut commands: Commands,
mut meshes: ResMut<Assets<Mesh>>,
mut materials: ResMut<Assets<StandardMaterial>>,
Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
2024-06-20 00:58:00 +00:00
asset_server: Res<AssetServer>,
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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) {
Adding explanation to seeded rng used in examples (#12593) # Objective - Fixes #12544 ## Solution - Added/updated a universally worded comment to all seeded rng instances in our examples.
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// We're seeding the PRNG here to make this example deterministic for testing purposes.
// This isn't strictly required in practical use unless you need your app to be deterministic.
Switch to portable RNG in examples (#12644) # Objective Fixes issue #12613 - the RNG used in examples is _deterministic_, but its implementation is not _portable_ across platforms. We want to switch to using a portable RNG that does not vary across platforms, to ensure certain examples play out the same way every time. ## Solution Replace all occurences of `rand::rngs::StdRng` with `rand_chacha::ChaCha8Rng`, as recommended in issue #12613 --- ## Changelog - Add `rand_chacha` as a new dependency (controversial?) - Replace all occurences of `rand::rngs::StdRng` with `rand_chacha::ChaCha8Rng`
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let mut seeded_rng = ChaCha8Rng::seed_from_u64(19878367467712);
make align deterministic with a seeded random (#12518) # Objective - Make example align deterministic so that it's easier to check for regression ## Solution - Use a seeded random
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Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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// A camera looking at the origin
commands.spawn(Camera3dBundle {
transform: Transform::from_xyz(3., 2.5, 4.).looking_at(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Y),
..default()
});
// A plane that we can sit on top of
Migrate meshes and materials to required components (#15524) # Objective A big step in the migration to required components: meshes and materials! ## Solution As per the [selected proposal](https://hackmd.io/@bevy/required_components/%2Fj9-PnF-2QKK0on1KQ29UWQ): - Deprecate `MaterialMesh2dBundle`, `MaterialMeshBundle`, and `PbrBundle`. - Add `Mesh2d` and `Mesh3d` components, which wrap a `Handle<Mesh>`. - Add `MeshMaterial2d<M: Material2d>` and `MeshMaterial3d<M: Material>`, which wrap a `Handle<M>`. - Meshes *without* a mesh material should be rendered with a default material. The existence of a material is determined by `HasMaterial2d`/`HasMaterial3d`, which is required by `MeshMaterial2d`/`MeshMaterial3d`. This gets around problems with the generics. Previously: ```rust commands.spawn(MaterialMesh2dBundle { mesh: meshes.add(Circle::new(100.0)).into(), material: materials.add(Color::srgb(7.5, 0.0, 7.5)), transform: Transform::from_translation(Vec3::new(-200., 0., 0.)), ..default() }); ``` Now: ```rust commands.spawn(( Mesh2d(meshes.add(Circle::new(100.0))), MeshMaterial2d(materials.add(Color::srgb(7.5, 0.0, 7.5))), Transform::from_translation(Vec3::new(-200., 0., 0.)), )); ``` If the mesh material is missing, previously nothing was rendered. Now, it renders a white default `ColorMaterial` in 2D and a `StandardMaterial` in 3D (this can be overridden). Below, only every other entity has a material: ![Näyttökuva 2024-09-29 181746](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5c8be029-d2fe-4b8c-ae89-17a72ff82c9a) ![Näyttökuva 2024-09-29 181918](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/58adbc55-5a1e-4c7d-a2c7-ed456227b909) Why white? This is still open for discussion, but I think white makes sense for a *default* material, while *invalid* asset handles pointing to nothing should have something like a pink material to indicate that something is broken (I don't handle that in this PR yet). This is kind of a mix of Godot and Unity: Godot just renders a white material for non-existent materials, while Unity renders nothing when no materials exist, but renders pink for invalid materials. I can also change the default material to pink if that is preferable though. ## Testing I ran some 2D and 3D examples to test if anything changed visually. I have not tested all examples or features yet however. If anyone wants to test more extensively, it would be appreciated! ## Implementation Notes - The relationship between `bevy_render` and `bevy_pbr` is weird here. `bevy_render` needs `Mesh3d` for its own systems, but `bevy_pbr` has all of the material logic, and `bevy_render` doesn't depend on it. I feel like the two crates should be refactored in some way, but I think that's out of scope for this PR. - I didn't migrate meshlets to required components yet. That can probably be done in a follow-up, as this is already a huge PR. - It is becoming increasingly clear to me that we really, *really* want to disallow raw asset handles as components. They caused me a *ton* of headache here already, and it took me a long time to find every place that queried for them or inserted them directly on entities, since there were no compiler errors for it. If we don't remove the `Component` derive, I expect raw asset handles to be a *huge* footgun for users as we transition to wrapper components, especially as handles as components have been the norm so far. I personally consider this to be a blocker for 0.15: we need to migrate to wrapper components for asset handles everywhere, and remove the `Component` derive. Also see https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/14124. --- ## Migration Guide Asset handles for meshes and mesh materials must now be wrapped in the `Mesh2d` and `MeshMaterial2d` or `Mesh3d` and `MeshMaterial3d` components for 2D and 3D respectively. Raw handles as components no longer render meshes. Additionally, `MaterialMesh2dBundle`, `MaterialMeshBundle`, and `PbrBundle` have been deprecated. Instead, use the mesh and material components directly. Previously: ```rust commands.spawn(MaterialMesh2dBundle { mesh: meshes.add(Circle::new(100.0)).into(), material: materials.add(Color::srgb(7.5, 0.0, 7.5)), transform: Transform::from_translation(Vec3::new(-200., 0., 0.)), ..default() }); ``` Now: ```rust commands.spawn(( Mesh2d(meshes.add(Circle::new(100.0))), MeshMaterial2d(materials.add(Color::srgb(7.5, 0.0, 7.5))), Transform::from_translation(Vec3::new(-200., 0., 0.)), )); ``` If the mesh material is missing, a white default material is now used. Previously, nothing was rendered if the material was missing. The `WithMesh2d` and `WithMesh3d` query filter type aliases have also been removed. Simply use `With<Mesh2d>` or `With<Mesh3d>`. --------- Co-authored-by: Tim Blackbird <justthecooldude@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
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commands.spawn((
Mesh3d(meshes.add(Plane3d::default().mesh().size(100.0, 100.0))),
MeshMaterial3d(materials.add(Color::srgb(0.3, 0.5, 0.3))),
Transform::from_xyz(0., -2., 0.),
));
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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// A light source
Migrate lights to required components (#15554) # Objective Another step in the migration to required components: lights! Note that this does not include `EnvironmentMapLight` or reflection probes yet, because their API hasn't been fully chosen yet. ## Solution As per the [selected proposals](https://hackmd.io/@bevy/required_components/%2FLLnzwz9XTxiD7i2jiUXkJg): - Deprecate `PointLightBundle` in favor of the `PointLight` component - Deprecate `SpotLightBundle` in favor of the `PointLight` component - Deprecate `DirectionalLightBundle` in favor of the `DirectionalLight` component ## Testing I ran some examples with lights. --- ## Migration Guide `PointLightBundle`, `SpotLightBundle`, and `DirectionalLightBundle` have been deprecated. Use the `PointLight`, `SpotLight`, and `DirectionalLight` components instead. Adding them will now insert the other components required by them automatically.
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commands.spawn((
PointLight {
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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shadows_enabled: true,
..default()
},
Migrate lights to required components (#15554) # Objective Another step in the migration to required components: lights! Note that this does not include `EnvironmentMapLight` or reflection probes yet, because their API hasn't been fully chosen yet. ## Solution As per the [selected proposals](https://hackmd.io/@bevy/required_components/%2FLLnzwz9XTxiD7i2jiUXkJg): - Deprecate `PointLightBundle` in favor of the `PointLight` component - Deprecate `SpotLightBundle` in favor of the `PointLight` component - Deprecate `DirectionalLightBundle` in favor of the `DirectionalLight` component ## Testing I ran some examples with lights. --- ## Migration Guide `PointLightBundle`, `SpotLightBundle`, and `DirectionalLightBundle` have been deprecated. Use the `PointLight`, `SpotLight`, and `DirectionalLight` components instead. Adding them will now insert the other components required by them automatically.
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Transform::from_xyz(4.0, 7.0, -4.0),
));
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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// Initialize random axes
Refactor align example to use `Dir3` random sampling (#13259) # Objective Since `align` was introduced, it has been reworked to allow the input of `Dir3` instead of `Vec3`, and we also introduced random sampling for points on a sphere and then for `Dir3`. Previously, this example rolled its own random generation, but it doesn't need to any more. ## Solution Refactor the 'align' example to use `Dir3` instead of `Vec3`, using the `bevy_math` API for random directions.
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let first = seeded_rng.gen();
let second = seeded_rng.gen();
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
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Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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Migrate scenes to required components (#15579) # Objective A step in the migration to required components: scenes! ## Solution As per the [selected proposal](https://hackmd.io/@bevy/required_components/%2FPJtNGVMMQhyM0zIvCJSkbA): - Deprecate `SceneBundle` and `DynamicSceneBundle`. - Add `SceneRoot` and `DynamicSceneRoot` components, which wrap a `Handle<Scene>` and `Handle<DynamicScene>` respectively. ## Migration Guide Asset handles for scenes and dynamic scenes must now be wrapped in the `SceneRoot` and `DynamicSceneRoot` components. Raw handles as components no longer spawn scenes. Additionally, `SceneBundle` and `DynamicSceneBundle` have been deprecated. Instead, use the scene components directly. Previously: ```rust let model_scene = asset_server.load(GltfAssetLabel::Scene(0).from_asset("model.gltf")); commands.spawn(SceneBundle { scene: model_scene, transform: Transform::from_xyz(-4.0, 0.0, -3.0), ..default() }); ``` Now: ```rust let model_scene = asset_server.load(GltfAssetLabel::Scene(0).from_asset("model.gltf")); commands.spawn(( SceneRoot(model_scene), Transform::from_xyz(-4.0, 0.0, -3.0), )); ```
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Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
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Migrate scenes to required components (#15579) # Objective A step in the migration to required components: scenes! ## Solution As per the [selected proposal](https://hackmd.io/@bevy/required_components/%2FPJtNGVMMQhyM0zIvCJSkbA): - Deprecate `SceneBundle` and `DynamicSceneBundle`. - Add `SceneRoot` and `DynamicSceneRoot` components, which wrap a `Handle<Scene>` and `Handle<DynamicScene>` respectively. ## Migration Guide Asset handles for scenes and dynamic scenes must now be wrapped in the `SceneRoot` and `DynamicSceneRoot` components. Raw handles as components no longer spawn scenes. Additionally, `SceneBundle` and `DynamicSceneBundle` have been deprecated. Instead, use the scene components directly. Previously: ```rust let model_scene = asset_server.load(GltfAssetLabel::Scene(0).from_asset("model.gltf")); commands.spawn(SceneBundle { scene: model_scene, transform: Transform::from_xyz(-4.0, 0.0, -3.0), ..default() }); ``` Now: ```rust let model_scene = asset_server.load(GltfAssetLabel::Scene(0).from_asset("model.gltf")); commands.spawn(( SceneRoot(model_scene), Transform::from_xyz(-4.0, 0.0, -3.0), )); ```
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Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
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Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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target_transform: random_axes_target_alignment(&RandomAxes(first, second)),
..default()
},
));
// Instructions for the example
commands.spawn((
TextBundle::from_section(
"The bright red axis is the primary alignment axis, and it will always be\n\
made to coincide with the primary target direction (white) exactly.\n\
The fainter red axis is the secondary alignment axis, and it is made to\n\
line up with the secondary target direction (gray) as closely as possible.\n\
Press 'R' to generate random target directions.\n\
Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
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Press 'T' to align the ship to those directions.\n\
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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Click and drag the mouse to rotate the camera.\n\
Press 'H' to hide/show these instructions.",
Updates default Text font size to 24px (#13603) # Objective - The default font size is too small to be useful in examples or for debug text. - Fixes #13587 ## Solution - Updated the default font size value in `TextStyle` from 12px to 24px. - Resorted to Text defaults in examples to use the default font size in most of them. ## Testing - WIP --- ## Migration Guide - The default font size has been increased to 24px from 12px. Make sure you set the font to the appropriate values in places you were using `Default` text style.
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TextStyle::default(),
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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)
.with_style(Style {
position_type: PositionType::Absolute,
top: Val::Px(12.0),
left: Val::Px(12.0),
..default()
}),
Instructions,
));
commands.insert_resource(MousePressed(false));
make align deterministic with a seeded random (#12518) # Objective - Make example align deterministic so that it's easier to check for regression ## Solution - Use a seeded random
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commands.insert_resource(SeededRng(seeded_rng));
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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}
// Update systems
Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
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// Draw the main and secondary axes on the rotating ship
fn draw_ship_axes(mut gizmos: Gizmos, query: Query<&Transform, With<Ship>>) {
let ship_transform = query.single();
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
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// Local Z-axis arrow, negative direction
let z_ends = arrow_ends(ship_transform, Vec3::NEG_Z, 1.5);
gizmos.arrow(z_ends.0, z_ends.1, RED);
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
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// local X-axis arrow
let x_ends = arrow_ends(ship_transform, Vec3::X, 1.5);
gizmos.arrow(x_ends.0, x_ends.1, Color::srgb(0.65, 0., 0.));
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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}
// Draw the randomly generated axes
fn draw_random_axes(mut gizmos: Gizmos, query: Query<&RandomAxes>) {
let RandomAxes(v1, v2) = query.single();
gizmos.arrow(Vec3::ZERO, 1.5 * *v1, WHITE);
gizmos.arrow(Vec3::ZERO, 1.5 * *v2, GRAY);
}
Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
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// Actually update the ship's transform according to its initial source and target
Use quaternionic `smooth_nudge` in the `align` example (#14858) # Objective This example previously had kind of a needlessly complex state machine that tracked moves between its previous orientation and the new one that was randomly generated. Using `smooth_nudge` simplifies the example in addition to making good use of the new API. ## Solution Use `smooth_nudge` to transition between the current transform and the new one. This does away with the need to keep track of the move's starting position and progress. It also just sort of looks nicer. ## Testing Run the `align` example: `cargo run --example align`
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fn rotate_ship(mut ship: Query<(&mut Ship, &mut Transform)>, time: Res<Time>) {
Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
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let (mut ship, mut ship_transform) = ship.single_mut();
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
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if !ship.in_motion {
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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return;
}
Use quaternionic `smooth_nudge` in the `align` example (#14858) # Objective This example previously had kind of a needlessly complex state machine that tracked moves between its previous orientation and the new one that was randomly generated. Using `smooth_nudge` simplifies the example in addition to making good use of the new API. ## Solution Use `smooth_nudge` to transition between the current transform and the new one. This does away with the need to keep track of the move's starting position and progress. It also just sort of looks nicer. ## Testing Run the `align` example: `cargo run --example align`
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let target_rotation = ship.target_transform.rotation;
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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Use quaternionic `smooth_nudge` in the `align` example (#14858) # Objective This example previously had kind of a needlessly complex state machine that tracked moves between its previous orientation and the new one that was randomly generated. Using `smooth_nudge` simplifies the example in addition to making good use of the new API. ## Solution Use `smooth_nudge` to transition between the current transform and the new one. This does away with the need to keep track of the move's starting position and progress. It also just sort of looks nicer. ## Testing Run the `align` example: `cargo run --example align`
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ship_transform
.rotation
.smooth_nudge(&target_rotation, 3.0, time.delta_seconds());
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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Use quaternionic `smooth_nudge` in the `align` example (#14858) # Objective This example previously had kind of a needlessly complex state machine that tracked moves between its previous orientation and the new one that was randomly generated. Using `smooth_nudge` simplifies the example in addition to making good use of the new API. ## Solution Use `smooth_nudge` to transition between the current transform and the new one. This does away with the need to keep track of the move's starting position and progress. It also just sort of looks nicer. ## Testing Run the `align` example: `cargo run --example align`
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if ship_transform.rotation.angle_between(target_rotation) <= f32::EPSILON {
Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
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ship.in_motion = false;
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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}
}
// Handle user inputs from the keyboard for dynamically altering the scenario
fn handle_keypress(
Use quaternionic `smooth_nudge` in the `align` example (#14858) # Objective This example previously had kind of a needlessly complex state machine that tracked moves between its previous orientation and the new one that was randomly generated. Using `smooth_nudge` simplifies the example in addition to making good use of the new API. ## Solution Use `smooth_nudge` to transition between the current transform and the new one. This does away with the need to keep track of the move's starting position and progress. It also just sort of looks nicer. ## Testing Run the `align` example: `cargo run --example align`
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mut ship: Query<&mut Ship>,
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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mut random_axes: Query<&mut RandomAxes>,
mut instructions: Query<&mut Visibility, With<Instructions>>,
keyboard: Res<ButtonInput<KeyCode>>,
make align deterministic with a seeded random (#12518) # Objective - Make example align deterministic so that it's easier to check for regression ## Solution - Use a seeded random
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mut seeded_rng: ResMut<SeededRng>,
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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) {
Use quaternionic `smooth_nudge` in the `align` example (#14858) # Objective This example previously had kind of a needlessly complex state machine that tracked moves between its previous orientation and the new one that was randomly generated. Using `smooth_nudge` simplifies the example in addition to making good use of the new API. ## Solution Use `smooth_nudge` to transition between the current transform and the new one. This does away with the need to keep track of the move's starting position and progress. It also just sort of looks nicer. ## Testing Run the `align` example: `cargo run --example align`
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let mut ship = ship.single_mut();
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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let mut random_axes = random_axes.single_mut();
if keyboard.just_pressed(KeyCode::KeyR) {
// Randomize the target axes
Refactor align example to use `Dir3` random sampling (#13259) # Objective Since `align` was introduced, it has been reworked to allow the input of `Dir3` instead of `Vec3`, and we also introduced random sampling for points on a sphere and then for `Dir3`. Previously, this example rolled its own random generation, but it doesn't need to any more. ## Solution Refactor the 'align' example to use `Dir3` instead of `Vec3`, using the `bevy_math` API for random directions.
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let first = seeded_rng.0.gen();
let second = seeded_rng.0.gen();
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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*random_axes = RandomAxes(first, second);
Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
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// Stop the ship and set it up to transform from its present orientation to the new one
ship.in_motion = false;
ship.target_transform = random_axes_target_alignment(&random_axes);
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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}
if keyboard.just_pressed(KeyCode::KeyT) {
Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
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ship.in_motion ^= true;
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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}
if keyboard.just_pressed(KeyCode::KeyH) {
let mut instructions_viz = instructions.single_mut();
if *instructions_viz == Visibility::Hidden {
*instructions_viz = Visibility::Visible;
} else {
*instructions_viz = Visibility::Hidden;
}
}
}
// Handle user mouse input for panning the camera around
fn handle_mouse(
Use AccumulatedMouseMotion, AccumulatedMouseScroll in examples (#14488) # Objective Use the new `AccumulatedMouseMotion` and `AccumulatedMouseScroll` resources in place of mouse event handling. I left the `mouse_input_events` example alone, since by its nature it demonstrates event detection. Fixes #14066 ## Testing Ran each example locally before and after changes.
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accumulated_mouse_motion: Res<AccumulatedMouseMotion>,
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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mut button_events: EventReader<MouseButtonInput>,
mut camera: Query<&mut Transform, With<Camera>>,
mut mouse_pressed: ResMut<MousePressed>,
) {
// Store left-pressed state in the MousePressed resource
for button_event in button_events.read() {
if button_event.button != MouseButton::Left {
continue;
}
*mouse_pressed = MousePressed(button_event.state.is_pressed());
}
// If the mouse is not pressed, just ignore motion events
if !mouse_pressed.0 {
return;
}
Use AccumulatedMouseMotion, AccumulatedMouseScroll in examples (#14488) # Objective Use the new `AccumulatedMouseMotion` and `AccumulatedMouseScroll` resources in place of mouse event handling. I left the `mouse_input_events` example alone, since by its nature it demonstrates event detection. Fixes #14066 ## Testing Ran each example locally before and after changes.
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if accumulated_mouse_motion.delta != Vec2::ZERO {
let displacement = accumulated_mouse_motion.delta.x;
let mut camera_transform = camera.single_mut();
camera_transform.rotate_around(Vec3::ZERO, Quat::from_rotation_y(-displacement / 75.));
}
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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}
// Helper functions (i.e. non-system functions)
fn arrow_ends(transform: &Transform, axis: Vec3, length: f32) -> (Vec3, Vec3) {
let local_vector = length * (transform.rotation * axis);
(transform.translation, transform.translation + local_vector)
}
// This is where `Transform::align` is actually used!
Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
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// Note that the choice of `Vec3::X` and `Vec3::Y` here matches the use of those in `draw_ship_axes`.
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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fn random_axes_target_alignment(random_axes: &RandomAxes) -> Transform {
let RandomAxes(first, second) = random_axes;
Use a ship in Transform::align example (#13935) # Objective The documentation for [`Transform::align`](https://docs.rs/bevy/0.14.0-rc.3/bevy/transform/components/struct.Transform.html#method.align) mentions a hypothetical ship model. Showing this concretely would be a nice improvement over using a cube. > For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w) will make the spaceship’s nose point in the direction of v, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction w. ## Solution This commit makes the ship less hypothetical by using a kenney ship model in the example. The local axes for the ship needed to change to accommodate the gltf, so the hypothetical in the documentation and this example's local axes don't necessarily match. Docs use `align(Dir3::X, v, Dir3::Y, w)` and this example now uses `(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)`. I manually modified the `craft_speederD` Node's `translation` to be 0,0,0 in the gltf file, which means it now differs from kenney's original model. Original ship from: https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit ## Testing ``` cargo run --example align ``` ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 05@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/ab1afc8f-76b2-42b6-b455-f0d1c77cfed7) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 12@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/4a01031c-4ea1-43ab-8078-3656db67efe0) ![screenshot-2024-06-19-at-14 27 20@2x](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/551247/06830f38-ba2b-4e3a-a265-2d10f9ea9de9)
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Transform::IDENTITY.aligned_by(Vec3::NEG_Z, *first, Vec3::X, *second)
Alignment API for Transforms (#12187) # Objective - Closes #11793 - Introduces a general API for aligning local coordinates of Transforms with given vectors. ## Solution - We introduce `Transform::align`, which allows a rotation to be specified by four pieces of alignment data, as explained by the documentation: ````rust /// Rotates this [`Transform`] so that the `main_axis` vector, reinterpreted in local coordinates, points /// in the given `main_direction`, while `secondary_axis` points towards `secondary_direction`. /// /// For example, if a spaceship model has its nose pointing in the X-direction in its own local coordinates /// and its dorsal fin pointing in the Y-direction, then `align(Vec3::X, v, Vec3::Y, w)` will make the spaceship's /// nose point in the direction of `v`, while the dorsal fin does its best to point in the direction `w`. /// /// More precisely, the [`Transform::rotation`] produced will be such that: /// * applying it to `main_axis` results in `main_direction` /// * applying it to `secondary_axis` produces a vector that lies in the half-plane generated by `main_direction` and /// `secondary_direction` (with positive contribution by `secondary_direction`) /// /// [`Transform::look_to`] is recovered, for instance, when `main_axis` is `Vec3::NEG_Z` (the [`Transform::forward`] /// direction in the default orientation) and `secondary_axis` is `Vec3::Y` (the [`Transform::up`] direction in the default /// orientation). (Failure cases may differ somewhat.) /// /// In some cases a rotation cannot be constructed. Another axis will be picked in those cases: /// * if `main_axis` or `main_direction` is zero, `Vec3::X` takes its place /// * if `secondary_axis` or `secondary_direction` is zero, `Vec3::Y` takes its place /// * if `main_axis` is parallel with `secondary_axis` or `main_direction` is parallel with `secondary_direction`, /// a rotation is constructed which takes `main_axis` to `main_direction` along a great circle, ignoring the secondary /// counterparts /// /// Example /// ``` /// # use bevy_math::{Vec3, Quat}; /// # use bevy_transform::components::Transform; /// let mut t1 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// let mut t2 = Transform::IDENTITY; /// t1.align(Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::Z, Vec3::ZERO, Vec3::X); /// t2.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::Y, Vec3::X); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, t2.rotation); /// /// t1.align(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z, Vec3::X, Vec3::Y); /// assert_eq!(t1.rotation, Quat::from_rotation_arc(Vec3::X, Vec3::Z)); /// ``` pub fn align( &mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) { //... } ```` - We introduce `Transform::aligned_by`, the returning-Self version of `align`: ````rust pub fn aligned_by( mut self, main_axis: Vec3, main_direction: Vec3, secondary_axis: Vec3, secondary_direction: Vec3, ) -> Self { //... } ```` - We introduce an example (examples/transforms/align.rs) that shows the usage of this API. It is likely to be mathier than most other `Transform` APIs, so when run, the example demonstrates what the API does in space: <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-12 at 11 01 19 AM" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2975848/884b3cc3-cbd9-48ae-8f8c-49a677c59dfe"> --- ## Changelog - Added methods `align`, `aligned_by` to `Transform`. - Added transforms/align.rs to examples. --- ## Discussion ### On the form of `align` The original issue linked above suggests an API similar to that of the existing `Transform::look_to` method: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` Not allowing an input axis of some sort that is to be aligned with `direction` would not really solve the problem in the issue, since the user could easily be in a scenario where they have to compose with another rotation on their own (undesirable). This leads to something like: ````rust pub fn align_to(&mut self, axis: Vec3, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { //... } ```` However, this still has two problems: - If the vector that the user wants to align is parallel to the Y-axis, then the API basically does not work (we cannot fully specify a rotation) - More generally, it does not give the user the freedom to specify which direction is to be treated as the local "up" direction, so it fails as a general alignment API Specifying both leads us to the present situation, with two local axis inputs (`main_axis` and `secondary_axis`) and two target directions (`main_direction` and `secondary_direction`). This might seem a little cumbersome for general use, but for the time being I stand by the decision not to expand further without prompting from users. I'll expand on this below. ### Additional APIs? Presently, this PR introduces only `align` and `aligned_by`. Other potentially useful bundles of API surface arrange into a few different categories: 1. Inferring direction from position, a la `Transform::look_at`, which might look something like this: ````rust pub fn align_at(&mut self, axis: Vec3, target: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(axis, target - self.translation, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (This is simple but still runs into issues when the user wants to point the local Y-axis somewhere.) 2. Filling in some data for the user for common use-cases; e.g.: ````rust pub fn align_x(&mut self, direction: Vec3, up: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Y, up); } ```` (Here, use of the `up` vector doesn't lose any generality, but it might be less convenient to specify than something else. This does naturally leave open the question of what `align_y` would look like if we provided it.) Morally speaking, I do think that the `up` business is more pertinent when the intention is to work with cameras, which the `look_at` and `look_to` APIs seem to cover pretty well. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what the ideal shape for these API functions would be, since it seems like a lot of input would have to be baked into the function definitions. For some cases, this might not be the end of the world: ````rust pub fn align_x_z(&mut self, direction: Vec3, weak_direction: Vec3) { self.align(Vec3::X, direction, Vec3::Z, weak_direction); } ```` (However, this is not symmetrical in x and z, so you'd still need six API functions just to support the standard positive coordinate axes, and if you support negative axes then things really start to balloon.) The reasons that these are not actually produced in this PR are as follows: 1. Without prompting from actual users in the wild, it is unknown to me whether these additional APIs would actually see a lot of use. Extending these to our users in the future would be trivial if we see there is a demand for something specific from the above-mentioned categories. 2. As discussed above, there are so many permutations of these that could be provided that trying to do so looks like it risks unduly ballooning the API surface for this feature. 3. Finally, and most importantly, creating these helper functions in user-space is trivial, since they all just involve specializing `align` to particular inputs; e.g.: ````rust fn align_ship(ship_transform: &mut Transform, nose_direction: Vec3, dorsal_direction: Vec3) { ship_transform.align(Ship::NOSE, nose_direction, Ship::DORSAL, dorsal_direction); } ```` With that in mind, I would prefer instead to focus on making the documentation and examples for a thin API as clear as possible, so that users can get a grip on the tool and specialize it for their own needs when they feel the desire to do so. ### `Dir3`? As in the case of `Transform::look_to` and `Transform::look_at`, the inputs to this function are, morally speaking, *directions* rather than vectors (actually, if we're being pedantic, the input is *really really* a pair of orthonormal frames), so it's worth asking whether we should really be using `Dir3` as inputs instead of `Vec3`. I opted for `Vec3` for the following reasons: 1. Specifying a `Dir3` in user-space is just more annoying than providing a `Vec3`. Even in the most basic cases (e.g. providing a vector literal), you still have to do error handling or call an unsafe unwrap in your function invocations. 2. The existing API mentioned above uses `Vec3`, so we are just adhering to the same thing. Of course, the use of `Vec3` has its own downsides; it can be argued that the replacement of zero-vectors with fixed ones (which we do in `Transform::align` as well as `Transform::look_to`) more-or-less amounts to failing silently. ### Future steps The question of additional APIs was addressed above. For me, the main thing here to handle more immediately is actually just upstreaming this API (or something similar and slightly mathier) to `glam::Quat`. The reason that this would be desirable for users is that this API currently only works with `Transform`s even though all it's actually doing is specifying a rotation. Upstreaming to `glam::Quat`, properly done, could buy a lot basically for free, since a number of `Transform` methods take a rotation as an input. Using these together would require a little bit of mathematical savvy, but it opens up some good things (e.g. `Transform::rotate_around`).
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