hello.
I have a 2d shape and i create a 3d extrusion on direction 0 0 1( i must do the extrusion on z axis for personal stuff, i can't use directly the extrusion direction).
Now i wish rotate the 3d extrusion solid by the extrusion direction.
How i can create a rotation matrix based on the extrusion direction?
I must first find the extrusion angle? but in which plane i must calculate the angle and in which plane is the extrusion axis?
this is an image
thanks.
Not sure what you are trying to accomplish, but it seems to me you are extruding a shape along the z-axis and want to then orient it in the direction of some secondary vector? Does the image show a top-down view of what you are trying to do? If you want to rotate around the Y-axis on the XZ-plane, you can use the following matrix (with v being the normalized "extrusion direction"):
[v.z, 0, -v.x]
[0, 1, 0]
[v.x, 0, v.z]
thanks.
but my problem is that the dir vector can be in any direction, also can have a rotation component in all the planes, es 30° in xy plane, 12 ° in yz , 24° in xz plane ecc....
i must find a rotation matrix for all the rotation components in all the planes for the dir vector and i not know how.
thanks.
Something is missing, I believe. The spaces in which the original shape and the extrusion direction are given must be identical at the moment of extrusion. You cannot pick different spaces and rely on a rotation to correct the situation. That means, you must have already done a transformation on the 2D shape before extrusion, and this transformation has mapped the original extrusion axis to (0,0,1). Hence, applying the inverse of said transformation on the extrusion's result would do the trick.
My understanding is that the z-axis transformed by the matrix becomes the extrusion vector.
If you want a matrix that is the result of a series of rotations around the z (roll), x (pitch) and y (yaw)-axes: http://www.flipcode.com/documents/matrfaq.html
This page also shows how to set up a matrix that rotates the extrusion from its original z-orientation towards a second vector on the plane formed by the two vectors.
My understanding is that the z-axis transformed by the matrix becomes the extrusion vector.
I would say: The z axis w.r.t. the actual extrusion space (i.e. those where the extrusion is performed) should be transformed into the extrusion axis in specification space (i.e. those where the demanded extrusion axis is specified), and the already generated 3D extruded shape should undergo the same transformation.
However, here is already a problem. Assume a square in the xy plane. Extrude it in z direction. Apply a rotation so that the z axis becomes the specified extrusion axis. The resulting shape will be a coboid, all angles between neighboring faces being 90 degree. Now think of the shape that would result if the same square is extruded along an axis titled by e.g. 45 degree in x direction. Those shape will be another one. To overcome this problem, one has to transform the square so that the orientation of the square relative to the extrusion axis is the same in this space as it was in the specification space. The transform applied, however, is actually the inverse of those where the OP is looking for. So it seems me that either the extrusion is not done correctly, or else the solution is indirectly already given. We need some more information on this.
This page also shows how to set up a matrix that rotates the extrusion from its original z-orientation towards a second vector on the plane formed by the two vectors.
Well, this solution is one possibility of infinitely many solutions; but it is one, correct.
thanks guys, very kind of you for your help.
now i wish express better my problem:
1)i have a 2d shape that i must extrude
2)i have an extrude direction that can be any normalized dir.
3)the 2d shape in 3d is flat, i must rotate it before extrude it and i must rotate ortogonal at the extrusion direction but how?
in the first 2 topics i would rotate the extrusion of a flat 2d shape in the z axis, but i understand haegarr and i would rotate the 2d shape before extrude the solid.
is correct?
But i not understand haegarr about the inverse matrix, can you explain me better this trick?
now:
1)is better do the extrusion of the 2d shape on the z axis then rotate the solid by the direction of the extrusion?
2)or is better rotate the 2d shape in 3d then do the extrusion by the extrusion direction?
these are the questions, how i can do that?
eppo i don't find your advice in your link.
thanks.
sorry, the image :
hello eppo i find now your solution, is the :
Q39. How do I generate a rotation matrix to map one vector onto another?
then i can find the rotation axis(with the cross product) and the angle(with dot product) and use the generic formula for rotate around an arbitrary axis?
is correct?
and, in base at my last post i can rotate also the 2d shape in 3d with the same process?
thanks, now i try
