Currently I am confused in terms of making a functionality of 3D compass. With SceneKit, I loaded an arrow object and then fetched sensor data like the code below (The effect is this video)
let motionManager = CMMotionManager()
motionManager.deviceMotionUpdateInterval = 1.0/60.0
if motionManager.isDeviceMotionAvailable {
motionManager.startDeviceMotionUpdates(to: OperationQueue.main, withHandler: { (devMotion, error) -> Void in
arrow.orientation = SCNQuaternion(-CGFloat((motionManager.deviceMotion?.attitude.quaternion.x)!), -CGFloat((motionManager.deviceMotion?.attitude.quaternion.y)!), -CGFloat((motionManager.deviceMotion?.attitude.quaternion.z)!), CGFloat((motionManager.deviceMotion?.attitude.quaternion.w)!))
})}
After done this, if the user rotate the device in any axis, the arrow can be rotated as well. Since this is a 3D compass, I need the arrow to point the direction. So I fetched the heading data via CLLocationManager, and then the problem is coming.
let gq1: GLKQuaternion = GLKQuaternionMakeWithAngleAndAxis(GLKMathDegreesToRadians(heading), 0, 0, 1)
arrow.orientation = SCNVector4(gq1.x,gq1.y,gq1.z,gq1.w)
The above code is doing perfectly in 2D like the pic below, it points the east direction correctly. But I want it in 3D environment, so I did like below
motionManager.deviceMotionUpdateInterval = 1.0/60.0
if motionManager.isDeviceMotionAvailable {
motionManager.startDeviceMotionUpdates(to: OperationQueue.main, withHandler: { (devMotion, error) -> Void in
arrow.orientation = orient(q: (motionManager.deviceMotion?.attitude.quaternion)!, angle: heading)
}
func orient(q:CMQuaternion,angle:Float) -> SCNQuaternion{
GLKQuaternionMakeWithAngleAndAxis(GLKMathDegreesToRadians(-angle), 0, 0, 1)
let gq1: GLKQuaternion = GLKQuaternionMakeWithAngleAndAxis(GLKMathDegreesToRadians(-angle), 0, 0, 1)
// add a rotation in z axis
let gq2: GLKQuaternion = GLKQuaternionMake(Float(q.x), Float(q.y), Float(q.z), Float(q.w))
// the current orientation
let qp: GLKQuaternion = GLKQuaternionMultiply(gq1, gq2)
// get the "new" orientation
var rq = CMQuaternion()
rq.x = Double(qp.x)
rq.y = Double(qp.y)
rq.z = Double(qp.z)
rq.w = Double(qp.w)
return SCNVector4(-Float(rq.x), -Float(rq.y), -Float(rq.z), Float(rq.w))
}
There is a bug(this video shows), if I rotate the device around z axis, the arrow still rotates around y axis. Did I do anything wrong?
