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Detecting a Terrain Height in a specific coordinate

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Started by mdias November 09, 2002 07:19 PM

1 comment, last by mdias 21 years, 5 months ago

mdias

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November 09, 2002 07:19 PM

Hi I want to make a object moving over a terrain object but I don''t know how to detect the terrain''s height at a specific coordinate. Some ideas to make this ? Kamikaze

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RapidStunna

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November 09, 2002 10:27 PM

Check out ray tracing and the Pick sample in the DirectX 8 SDK or other online tutorials by doing a search - would help you out myself but searching isn''t too difficult. Ray tracing, casting, or picking. Check all 3 if one doesn''t come up with anything.

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Mescalito

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November 13, 2002 03:01 AM

See D3DXIntersectTri in your SDK doc.

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