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

Stephen Sinclair radarsat1 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 22 17:17:03 CEST 2007


here's another solution, only using Translate

Steve


On 7/22/07, Thomas O Fredericks <tof at danslchamp.org> wrote:
>
> 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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> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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