Crawling Cursor
An A-Frame component to move cursor along object's surface.
UPDATE Version for AFRAME 0.8.2
Thanks to Pluto8195 for addressing and solving the issue. I simply added a refresh limitation inside the tick function and updated the source code properly.
API
| Property | Description | Default Value |
|---|---|---|
| target | selector(#id) of a cursor | null |
| offset | distance cursor hovers over intersection point | 0.05 (meters, or 5cm) |
| refreshTime | Delay between on intersection check and another | 1000 / 25 ms (25 fps) |
Usage
1.put a-cursor object in a document.
<a-cursor></a-cursor>2.set raycaster and crawling-cursor component on camera object.
<a-camera raycaster crawling-cursor></a-camera>options
If you want a entity to be a cursor, you can set id on 'target' property.
<a-camera raycaster crawling-cursor="target: #my-cursor"></a-camera>
<a-ring id="my-cursor"></a-ring>If you want some object to avoid intersection, add ignore-ray class to them.
<!-- cursor will not be along with this box -->
<a-box class="ignore-ray"></a-box>Installation
browser
<head>
<title>My A-Frame Scene</title>
<script src="https://aframe.io/releases/0.8.2/aframe.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/darkwave/aframe-crawling-cursor/master/dist/aframe-crawling-cursor.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<a-scene>
<a-cursor></a-cursor>
<a-camera raycaster crawling-cursor></a-camera>
</a-scene>
</body>npm
Install via npm:
$npm install aframe-crawling-cursor
Then register and use.
require('aframe');
require('aframe-crawling-cursor');