Here's an easy one, and I'm drawing a blank and can't seem to figure it out... First off, I have a 2d normalized vector. Just for simplicity's sake, let's say it's (0.25, 0.75). What I want to do is turn that (0.75) into (1.00) and turn (0.25) into whatever would allow the first number to be (1.00) but still point in the same direction... Hard to explain, but basically I want to scale the vector to allow the larger (or smaller, if the 'larger' number is negative) number to be 'one' (or 'negative one'). So, if the vector was (0.33, 0.66), I'd want it to end up being (x.x, 1.0). If the original vector was (-0.2, -0.8), I'd want it to end up being (-x.x, -1.0). If the original vector was (-0.6, 0.4), I'd want it to end up being (-1.0, y.y)... I apologize if this doesn't make any sense at all, because I really stink at explaining stuff! But if you sorta muck through what I'm trying to explain, maybe an equasion you know will come to mind. Thanks in advance for the help, I really appreciate it! :)

Its really easy. You're just scaling both components by the same amount. Given a 2D vector (x, y), if you want y to be 1.0, the scaled vector is:

scaled vector = (x/fabsf(y), y/fabsf(y))              = (x/fabsf(y), 1.0 or -1.0);

If you want the *larger* of x or y to become 1/-1, then do this:

multiplier = 1.0/(max(fabsf(x), fabsf(y)));scaled vector = (x * multiplier, y * multiplier);

these are not normalize vectors as long as I know!!!

and if you want your vector to be (x.x, 1.0), it doesn't have the choice to be (0.0, 1.0)

maybe you should revise your math!!

Dang y'all are quick! Thanks for all the info, I'll play around with those ideas and see if I can get it all to work.

As far as increasing my knowledge of vector math and such, what field of math (algebra, geometry, trig, etc) should I study?

Thanks again! :)