Draw SceneKit object between two points

Question

Having made some progress in the geometry side of things I\'m moving on to putting together an entire scene. That scene has a couple dozen objects, each defined by a boundin

Answer 1

@maury-markowitz's answer worked for me, here is the latest (Swift4) version of it. To anyone working with SCNVector3 in Swift I can only recommend to add the +-*/ operator overloads somewhere in your code (e.g. from here).

extension SCNNode {
    static func lineNode(from: SCNVector3, to: SCNVector3, radius: CGFloat = 0.25) -> SCNNode {
        let vector = to - from
        let height = vector.length()
        let cylinder = SCNCylinder(radius: radius, height: CGFloat(height))
        cylinder.radialSegmentCount = 4
        let node = SCNNode(geometry: cylinder)
        node.position = (to + from) / 2
        node.eulerAngles = SCNVector3.lineEulerAngles(vector: vector)
        return node
    }
}

extension SCNVector3 {
    static func lineEulerAngles(vector: SCNVector3) -> SCNVector3 {
        let height = vector.length()
        let lxz = sqrtf(vector.x * vector.x + vector.z * vector.z)
        let pitchB = vector.y < 0 ? Float.pi - asinf(lxz/height) : asinf(lxz/height)
        let pitch = vector.z == 0 ? pitchB : sign(vector.z) * pitchB

        var yaw: Float = 0
        if vector.x != 0 || vector.z != 0 {
            let inner = vector.x / (height * sinf(pitch))
            if inner > 1 || inner < -1 {
                yaw = Float.pi / 2
            } else {
                yaw = asinf(inner)
            }
        }
        return SCNVector3(CGFloat(pitch), CGFloat(yaw), 0)
    }
}