[Pontus]

Hi there

I've been searching on the internetn for a while now, and I can't seem to find a function that determines wether a given sphere and ray intersect, and if so, what's the 'normal' at that point.

All help is welcome!

[Lillefix]

This snippet from http://www.peroxide.dk looks like what you want.

double intersectRaySphere(D3DVECTOR rO, D3DVECTOR rV, D3DVECTOR sO, double sR) {
	
   D3DVECTOR Q = sO-rO;
   double c = lengthOfVector(Q);
   double v = dot(Q,rV);
   double d = sR*sR - (c*c - v*v);

   // If there was no intersection, return -1
   if (d < 0.0) return (-1.0f);

   // Return the distance to the [first] intersecting point
   return (v - sqrt(d));
}

This post has been edited by Lillefix: 06 September 2009 - 02:55 AM

[Pontus]

Thanks!

This post has been edited by Pontus: 06 September 2009 - 06:06 AM