How create orthographic view to fit a square

Hello,

I can't seem to do this.. I have a square area defined by 4 world space corners. What I want is to automatically position an orthographic camera on top of the square, adjust the camera's orthographic size to just fit that square and take a screenshot.

Can someone give me a little insight on this? ( this is to create a minimap )

Thank you

 

A camera has as many corners as a square.

A camera also has a transform.

So if you set the cameras transform.x and transform.y, its width and its height to the same of the square and also its rotation, the camera will be "pointing" at that square. You then just adjust one of the axis so that its not right on top of the square but a little above/bellow it as you need.

 

Actually stupid as that may be I hadn't tried just setting the corner coordinates directly to Matrix4x4.Ortho... People are so stupid sometimes...

 

Does that mean your problem is solved ?

 

The problem that I asked about has been solved.

I still have a related problem that I can work around but it'd be nice if I knew why it happens.. The method I used to create a minimap before was to cast rays from the bottom left corner of that square until the top right, and render the color of the hit point to a texture.

Then that texture is used as a minimap where various world positions are rendered on top of it as minimap icons etc.

The problem that I'm having right now is that the image produced with raycasting vs the image that is rendered using the orthographic camera is offseted by a slight amount. I don't know why and I don't expect you to know why, I'm just mentioning it in case you had an idea why this happens. Theoritically the two images should be identical ( of course the screenshot would have more detail ).

 

I'm not experienced enough with raycasting so you are right on the money, I can't help there.

I, however, have followed a tutorial for a minimap and got it working easy.

Are you doing it your way for any reason or would you be open to other ways to do it?

 

That's alright thanks anyway . Well I am doing it with a texture instead of a second camera that renders a top-down view, because of the number of draw calls that the second camera would add. Unfortunately I can't afford to double the number of draw calls ...

 

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Thanks I'll check that out