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From: Richard Powell <richardo.lists(a)gmail.com>
Date: Jul 22, 2007 3:32 PM
Subject: circular motion of a shape using TranslateXYZ
To: gem-dev(a)iem.at.
Hi everyone,
This is my first post to the list so please bear with me.
I am trying to move a shape (sphere, square, cube doesn't matter to much)
in a circle around a central point. The Easiest way to do this is to use
Translate XYZ to move the shape for example 1 unit X,Y or Z and then use
rotateXYZ to rotate it. Simple, except I would like to keep the shape
always pointing up, so that the texture that will be applied to the shape
will always be the correct way up. For this I have decided to use just
TranslateXYZ. I have attached how far I have got with this so far. As you
can see the shape moves as in a square motion rather than a circular motion.
I am guessing I need to apply some maths to the numbers between the line
object and the Translate XYZ object, but everything I've tried hasn't
worked.
Thanks in advance
Richard