Face normals?
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I''ve searched the forums for this already but got no results...
What is the math for calculating the normal of a triangle that is being drawn counter-clockwise?
I know it has to do with cross-product and normalizing or somthing... but, can someone give me an example?
The answer is in the question. If your triangle has vertices A, B, C (in anti-clockwise order) form the vectors A->B, and B->C. Take the cross-product of those two vectors. Normalize it. Ta-da!
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what does the symbol - > mean?
Can you give an example?
[edited by - colinisinhere on October 9, 2003 7:02:02 PM]
Can you give an example?
[edited by - colinisinhere on October 9, 2003 7:02:02 PM]
Colin, some light reading may be useful to you in your current level of learning.
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How appropriate. You fight like a cow.
VEC3D p1,p2,p3;
VEC3D v1,v2;
v1.x = p1.x - p2.x;
v1.y = p1.y - p2.y;
v1.z = p1.z - p2.z;
v2.x = p2.x - p3.x;
v2.y = p2.y - p3.y;
v2.z = p2.z - p3.z;
//Find the cross product of v1 and v2
//Then normalize the result
[edited by - starboarder on October 9, 2003 7:28:25 PM]
VEC3D v1,v2;
v1.x = p1.x - p2.x;
v1.y = p1.y - p2.y;
v1.z = p1.z - p2.z;
v2.x = p2.x - p3.x;
v2.y = p2.y - p3.y;
v2.z = p2.z - p3.z;
//Find the cross product of v1 and v2
//Then normalize the result
[edited by - starboarder on October 9, 2003 7:28:25 PM]
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Ok, i did some extra reasearch and I wrote this code for Calculating the normals:
but they are Not calculated correctly because I get weird results!
What did i do wrong?!?
[edited by - colinisinhere on October 9, 2003 11:21:40 PM]
void calcNorms(cMesh mesh){ fVector v1, v2; float length; for(int i = 0; i < mesh.nFaces; i++) { v1.x = mesh.pVertices[mesh.pFaces[i].nIndices[0]].x - mesh.pVertices[mesh.pFaces[i].nIndices[1]].x; v1.y = mesh.pVertices[mesh.pFaces[i].nIndices[0]].y - mesh.pVertices[mesh.pFaces[i].nIndices[1]].y; v1.z = mesh.pVertices[mesh.pFaces[i].nIndices[0]].z - mesh.pVertices[mesh.pFaces[i].nIndices[1]].z; v2.x = mesh.pVertices[mesh.pFaces[i].nIndices[1]].x - mesh.pVertices[mesh.pFaces[i].nIndices[2]].x; v2.y = mesh.pVertices[mesh.pFaces[i].nIndices[1]].y - mesh.pVertices[mesh.pFaces[i].nIndices[2]].y; v2.z = mesh.pVertices[mesh.pFaces[i].nIndices[1]].z - mesh.pVertices[mesh.pFaces[i].nIndices[2]].z; mesh.pFaces[i].pNormal.x = v2.y*v1.z - v2.z*v1.y; mesh.pFaces[i].pNormal.y = v2.z*v1.x - v2.x*v1.z; mesh.pFaces[i].pNormal.z = v2.x*v1.y - v2.y*v1.x; length = sqrtf(mesh.pFaces[i].pNormal.x * mesh.pFaces[i].pNormal.y + mesh.pFaces[i].pNormal.y * mesh.pFaces[i].pNormal.y + mesh.pFaces[i].pNormal.y * mesh.pFaces[i].pNormal.y); mesh.pFaces[i].pNormal.x /= length; mesh.pFaces[i].pNormal.y /= length; mesh.pFaces[i].pNormal.z /= length; }}but they are Not calculated correctly because I get weird results!
What did i do wrong?!?
[edited by - colinisinhere on October 9, 2003 11:21:40 PM]
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