---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Powell richardo.lists@gmail.com Date: Jul 22, 2007 3:32 PM Subject: circular motion of a shape using TranslateXYZ To: gem-dev@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
Here is the corrected patch (much simpler than what you are expecting)
Tom
On 7/22/07, Richard Powell richardo.lists@gmail.com wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Powell richardo.lists@gmail.com Date: Jul 22, 2007 3:32 PM Subject: circular motion of a shape using TranslateXYZ To: gem-dev@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
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here's another solution, only using Translate
Steve
On 7/22/07, Thomas O Fredericks tof@danslchamp.org wrote:
Here is the corrected patch (much simpler than what you are expecting)
Tom
On 7/22/07, Richard Powell < richardo.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Powell <richardo.lists@gmail.com > Date: Jul 22, 2007 3:32 PM Subject: circular motion of a shape using TranslateXYZ To: gem-dev@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
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