Rotating around a models forward, left and up vectors
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Basically I am creating a rotation widget in a directx application in which you select a model, and rotate it on it's x,y and z axis by clicking and dragging on the widget. Similar to a rotation widget in software like 3DS max.
There's something I don't understand about basic rotation because multiplying an x,y,z axis rotation together will cause different results depenending on the order in which they are multiplied together unless two of the axis are set to 0,0.
The only way I can think to fix this, is to somehow be able to return the up,forward and right vectors from the world matrix currently rotating the model, and then use these as x,y and z axis for calculating rotation. Movement will always be restricted to one axis at a time.
Any ideas on how to do this or am I thinking about it all wrong?
Locking rotations and translations to a specific axis is the standard way of doing it AFAIK...it's how 3dsmax does it, it's how Sandbox2 does it, and it's how I do it in my map editor. I also have let the user select a transform mode (View, Local, Parent, World), like in 3dsmax and Sandbox2. This is basically how I do it...
moveX and moveY would be the amount the mouse cursor has moved in screen space...you might want to use something else if you're drawing something the user is manipulating like in 3dsmax. level.RotateSelectedObjects just applies the rotation matrix by multiplying rotation * worldMatrix;
private void RotateSelectedObjects(float moveX, float moveY){ // Rotate selected objects Vector3 axis; float moveAmount; Matrix rotationMatrix; if (lockedAxis == LockedAxis.XAxis) { moveAmount = moveY * 0.005f; axis = new Vector3(1, 0, 0); } else if (lockedAxis == LockedAxis.YAxis) { moveAmount = moveX * 0.005f; axis = new Vector3(0, 1, 0); } else { moveAmount = moveX * 0.005f; axis = new Vector3(0, 0, 1); } Matrix[] rotations = new Matrix[level.SelectedObjects.Count]; for (int i = 0; i < level.SelectedObjects.Count; i++) { Matrix transform = GetTransformForObject(level.SelectedObjects); Vector3 transformedAxis = Vector3.TransformNormal(axis, Matrix.Invert(transform)); Matrix.CreateFromAxisAngle(ref transformedAxis, moveAmount, out rotationMatrix); rotations = rotationMatrix; } level.RotateSelectedObjects(rotations);}private Matrix GetTransformForObject(GameObject gameObject){ if (transformType == TransformType.View) return level.Camera.ViewMatrix; else if (transformType == TransformType.World) return Matrix.Identity; else if (transformType == TransformType.Local) return Matrix.Invert(gameObject.WorldMatrix); else if (transformType == TransformType.Parent) { if (gameObject.Parent != null) return Matrix.Invert(gameObject.Parent.WorldMatrix); else return Matrix.Identity; } return Matrix.Identity;}moveX and moveY would be the amount the mouse cursor has moved in screen space...you might want to use something else if you're drawing something the user is manipulating like in 3dsmax. level.RotateSelectedObjects just applies the rotation matrix by multiplying rotation * worldMatrix;
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Thanks for your reply.
Sorry I should have said I was programming this in directx.
I understand how to do all of that but I can't find an equivelent to CreateFromAxisAngle in directx. Any ideas?
Sorry I should have said I was programming this in directx.
I understand how to do all of that but I can't find an equivelent to CreateFromAxisAngle in directx. Any ideas?
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