Hi. I have a slight problem. I have forgotten (or never knew) how to create a normal from three values: the rotations around the x, y and z axes. Can anyone help me out? Is there a quick way of doing this? If I crack this, I have a perfectly working selection system...
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length = sqrt (x*x+y*y+z*z);
x=x/length
y=y/length
z=z/length
hope that helps...just doing this really quick
oops...messed up
...could you explain a bit better? (disregard above (i think)
[edited by - Grizwald on October 1, 2002 5:49:59 PM]
x=x/length
y=y/length
z=z/length
hope that helps...just doing this really quick
oops...messed up
...could you explain a bit better? (disregard above (i think)[edited by - Grizwald on October 1, 2002 5:49:59 PM]
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I have to project a ray from the viewer''s position (x, y, z) to another point directly in front of where they''re looking, say, 100px. I need to convert the viewer''s look angles to a normal, so then I can multiply RayStart by (Normal * 100) and derive the end of the ray. Does this help any more?
It''s kind of a wierd problem. I think I have a solution to it, but I''m not sure...my head is swimming a little...I need sleep...must program...must sleep...[passes out on keyboard]...
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It''s kind of a wierd problem. I think I have a solution to it, but I''m not sure...my head is swimming a little...I need sleep...must program...must sleep...[passes out on keyboard]...
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well i can''t help you there! i''m still having problems with my mouse selection code...can''t get it to work on the XZ plane correctly, but i hope that me replying will bump this up for ya! good luck
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Hey, here's one for you all to chew on...could I do this to solve my problem?
Get the current modelview matrix using glGetFloatv(), then multiply a normal (0, 0, -1) by it, and use the resulting normal to derive the ray I need? I think this is possible. I'll go away and test it now, but I was just wondering if anyone could confirm this for me?
By the way, I chose (0, 0, -1) because that's the direction the modelview matrix is pointing when the identity matrix is loaded and no translations are applied, right? Straight down the z axis? Hmmm...
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[edited by - iNsAn1tY on October 2, 2002 6:08:34 PM]
Get the current modelview matrix using glGetFloatv(), then multiply a normal (0, 0, -1) by it, and use the resulting normal to derive the ray I need? I think this is possible. I'll go away and test it now, but I was just wondering if anyone could confirm this for me?
By the way, I chose (0, 0, -1) because that's the direction the modelview matrix is pointing when the identity matrix is loaded and no translations are applied, right? Straight down the z axis? Hmmm...
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[edited by - iNsAn1tY on October 2, 2002 6:08:34 PM]
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No, as it turns out, you can''t. I''ll have to create a purely roation-only matrix, and multiply a normal by that. This is truning out to be rather irritating...
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Which is why I learnt that angles really suck! I just use right, up and front vectors now: very clean, and a lot easier to work with.
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I''m fast coming to the same conclusion: angles suck. I only used that system in my movement functions because it was quick and simple to implement. I was concentrating on other things, but now the time has come to get a more robust system. I''ll head over to gametutorials.com and pick up their camera tutorials...
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- Birdman, Beautiful Girls.Try http://uk.geocities.com/mentalmantle. Seriously. It''s brilliant.
And I just completely redesigned it so it looks even better.
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