Why does intersectMesh test fail when one of the meshes moved with copyFrom position?

Questions
1

Here is a playground: https://playground.babylonjs.com/#2UR29J

The scene contains a box and a sphere. These two meshes are separate and do not intersect.

I have a function called “detect” that I have added to the window object. This function does the following:

    window.detect = () => {
        // first move sphere to box
        sphere.position.copyFrom(box.position);
        return sphere.intersectsMesh(box)
    }

First it moves the sphere to the box by copying the position vector from the box to the sphere. Then we test to see if the sphere intersects the box.

I expect that running detect() in the browser’s dev console would return true right away. But it takes a second run of detect() to return true.

Why does the function return false on the initial run?

2

This is because the world matrix has not been recalculated at this time.

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