[PD] Fwd: circular motion of a shape using TranslateXYZ

[Thomas O Fredericks]

Here is the corrected patch (much simpler than what you are expecting)

Tom

On 7/22/07, Richard Powell <richardo.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Richard Powell <richardo.lists at gmail.com>
> Date: Jul 22, 2007 3:32 PM
> Subject: circular motion of a shape using TranslateXYZ
> To: gem-dev at iem.at.
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> Hi everyone,
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> This is my first post to the list so please bear with me.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thanks in advance
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> Richard
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