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gareth
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Posted: 30th Jan 2004 20:38
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sorry another post (must be the third this week)
i cant get my head around limbs, ive got a plain, and i need to add another plain to the side of it as a limb, with another plain the the front as another limb,

ive created all 3 plains, now how do i make plains 2 and 3 limbs of plain 1?? please can anyone enlighten me on this?
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Jess T
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Posted: 31st Jan 2004 09:44
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What you want to do is use the Make Mesh From Object command so that you have a mesh, then use the Add Limb command to add the newly created mesh to the main plain.

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Posted: 31st Jan 2004 09:52 Edited at: 31st Jan 2004 12:02
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i never have really understood what meshes are?
can anyone explain?
i would be most apreciative
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Mesh's are rather simple. They are simply the source object's vertex data stored in memory. Nothing more, nothing less.

Then, using that mesh, you can apply the vertex data to other objects, or create an object with the same vertex data, etc etc.

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Travis
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Why thankyou for enlightining me oh so great kind,kind, sir.
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gareth
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yes, i always thought that the mesh had to be the shape of the completed object with its limbs, do you delete the mesh after youve added the limbs, because when i use "make mesh from object" i always get an untextured object (which is guess is the mesh) and my orignal object?
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What the heck is vertext data?

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gareth
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i sovled it, but now i have problem, i need to rotate the limb towards the mouse, the game is a side scroller, but the user can zoom the camera in and out, making position an object to the mouse very hard
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Doucan;

Verticies ( multiple vertex's ) are each point on a model. You've probably seen models in their wireframe mode before, and you would have noticed that each model is made up of triangles, each point of these triangles are called a vertex, or verticies.

Vertex data is simply their position in 3D space.


gareth;

Use Object Screen X(num) and Object Screen Y(num) to find the position of the object on the screen, then, check that against the positoin of the mouse, and if they aren't where you want them to be, move/rotate the object untill it is all good.

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well, the turret is always to the front of the ship (the camera is to the side of the ship), and the ship is always in the centre of the screen, so how wud i work out the angle between the screen posy of the turret and the screen posy of the mouse?
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use Sin and Cos...

Find the right angled distance each each ( verticle and horizontal ) then use either Sin or Cos to find the angle.

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thnx

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