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this question is engine agnostic, I will use the term "object" to refer to entities in my scene.

The scenario is the following:

  • I have 2 entities
  • Entity O is a capsule
  • Entity C is a point

I want to move B toward A's center but stop on A's surface in the less computationally expansive way I can think about.

I figured I'd work out the distance between the center of the capsule and the point on the surface where I should stop and use it as an offset to my destination point (destinationPoint -= direction * computedDistance), but I don't know how to find that distance.

My question is: can you come up with a better way to achieve my goal and if not can you solve the problem I've stumbled upon in my solution?

This is a representation of the secondary problem. In the figure I know the coordinates of C, O, A, B, and I want to know the length of PO or the coordinates of P.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Check for intersection of a line OC with a cylinder expanding capsules' body into infinity. Check if point of intersection P lies within capsules' cylinder body. If not - check for intersection with closest sphere cap of a capsule. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Mar 15, 2018 at 11:55
  • \$\begingroup\$ Hey, thanks for the comment. Do you think this is something ok to do 100 times every frame? \$\endgroup\$ Commented Mar 15, 2018 at 12:00
  • \$\begingroup\$ why would you want to do that so frequently? Anyway - CPUs crunch through math calculations easily. Don't spend time optimising for bottlenecks that are not there. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Mar 15, 2018 at 12:02
  • \$\begingroup\$ I was thinking about having multiple C entities in my application, ok then I will try your soultion out mate :) \$\endgroup\$ Commented Mar 15, 2018 at 12:10
  • \$\begingroup\$ Sorry to bother you, do you also happen to have some good reference on how to get the intersection point on a cylinder? \$\endgroup\$ Commented Mar 15, 2018 at 12:41

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