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first off, yes i cant spell i meant either complicated or complex and ended up with a cross of the two

what i want is help making an equasion that can find the x,y,z position of a point that sits on a sphere, useing the diameter of the sphere and two angles the verticle elevation and the horizontal rotation eg. if u look at the world i would be talking about the latitude and longitude

any help would be apreciated

(p.s. my first attempt i had a cylinder and my last atempt i ended up finding the equasion for a torus, weird huh, if any wants it just ask)

to help ppl understand what im getting at ill throw in 2 examples that i would use this equasion for:

1)if i had 100 plain objects and positioned them acording to the equasion using random angles and a radius of 1, id then end up with a sphere made up of objects, by changing the radius i can then make a spherical exploding particle effect similar to the one in the db example which uses a cube like pattern

2) by using the mousemovex() and ~y() commands to inc/dec the angles then positon the camera useing the equasion and pointing it to an object at the center of the imaginary sphere i can look around it yet keep a uniform distance which i can change to make a zoom in effect

I know I've down something similar before, but I can't remember how, nor can I find my code anywhere. I did find this code from an abandoned project of mine. Maybe it can help you.

i dont think i can use that ... little hard to follow ... but the example thing is cool what were u using it for?

just for reference i tryed using xpos = sin (a) sin (b)
ypos = sin (a) cos (b)
zpos = cos (a) or somthing very close but it just doesnt work with what i want

The plan was to eventually get the matrix to act like cloth over a ball.

Your equations are going to have the radius of the sphere multiplied in there somewhere.

I don't know if this will work, but you can try it...

Make Object Sphere 999,0
Position Object 999,SphereXPos#,SphereYPos#,SphereZPos#
Rotate Object 999,AngX#,AngY#,0
Move Object 999,Radius#
NewX#=Object Position X(999)
NewY#=Object Position Y(999)
NewZ#=Object Position Z(999)
Delete Object 999

This will simply make an object and position it at the center of the "sphere", it then rotates it, moves it the givin radius, and gives you the 3-D coordinants... I made the object 999 so it doesn't ruin the rest of your code, but feel free to change it to any number you wish... the SphereXPos#, SphereYPos#, and SphereZPos# are the coordinants of the center of the sphere...

well... i hope that helps...

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If Make Object Sphere 999,0 doesn't work, change the "0" to "1"